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■ More troubles. SDS is now planning summer “work-ins.” Instructions to students: Clean up when you apply for a job, don’t do too well in aptitude tests (you want to be assigned blue-collar work), then preach revolution—but not so flamboyantly as to get fired. Object: the worker-student alliance the Progressive Labor wing of SDS believes is essential to revolution. The Illinois Manufacturers Association, for one, is warning local business to look out for SDS types. . . . Carl Davidson’s clandestine SDS handbook for agitation in the universities has now been inserted in the Congressional Record. Davidson, a Guardian columnist who claims to be the SDS theoretician, says: “Ultimately [our only source of power] lies in our potential ability to stop the university from functioning.” . . . Which isn’t so hard with such as Pres. James Perkins of Cornell at the helm. When Negro militants at Cornell demanded $2,000 to buy bongo drums to celebrate the first anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death, Perkins raised $1,700 and even provided them with free transport to NYC in the university plane, reports Evans and Novak. . . . Among the campus agitators, says House Minority Leader Gerald Ford, are Arab students, many of them trained in guerrilla tactics in Red China. . . . Another side of the picture: Freshman applications at Columbia were down 13 per cent this year (when they were going up in other Ivy League colleges) as a result of last year’s disruptions. Not mentioned in the Columbia report: a drop-off in alumni contributions.

■ All is far from serene in the New Democratic Coalition, which was organized to unify radical liberals. Trouble is, Kennedyites seem to be running away with the organization. Hard Times reports that Teddy Kennedy has refused to speak at the May 24 fund-raising Sheraton Park dinner if McCarthy appears (whereupon McCarthy backed out). Stephen Smith (the least objectionable Kennedy to the McCarthyites) refused to be co-chairman so the Kennedyites substituted Ted Sorensen (whom the Clean Geners dislike). . . . Blair Clark, McCarthy’s campaign manager (and a former Harvard roommate of IFK) caught in the middle. Clark now says McCarthy has concluded that his campaign was a mistake; that he is now totally disillusioned with the Democratic Party.

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■ More troubles. SDS is now planning summer “work-ins.” Instructions to students: Clean up when you apply for a job, don’t do too well in aptitude tests (you want to be assigned blue-collar work), then preach revolution—but not so flamboyantly as to get fired. Object: the worker-student alliance the Progressive Labor wing of SDS believes is essential to revolution. The Illinois Manufacturers Association, for one, is warning local business to look out for SDS types. . . . Carl Davidson’s clandestine SDS handbook for agitation in the universities has now been inserted in the Congressional Record. Davidson, a Guardian columnist who claims to be the SDS theoretician, says: “Ultimately [our only source of power] lies in our potential ability to stop the university from functioning.” . . . Which isn’t so hard with such as Pres. James Perkins of Cornell at the helm. When Negro militants at Cornell demanded $2,000 to buy bongo drums to celebrate the first anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death, Perkins raised $1,700 and even provided them with free transport to NYC in the university plane, reports Evans and Novak. . . . Among the campus agitators, says House Minority Leader Gerald Ford, are Arab students, many of them trained in guerrilla tactics in Red China. . . . Another side of the picture: Freshman applications at Columbia were down 13 per cent this year (when they were going up in other Ivy League colleges) as a result of last year’s disruptions. Not mentioned in the Columbia report: a drop-off in alumni contributions.

■ All is far from serene in the New Democratic Coalition, which was organized to unify radical liberals. Trouble is, Kennedyites seem to be running away with the organization. Hard Times reports that Teddy Kennedy has refused to speak at the May 24 fund-raising Sheraton Park dinner if McCarthy appears (whereupon McCarthy backed out). Stephen Smith (the least objectionable Kennedy to the McCarthyites) refused to be co-chairman so the Kennedyites substituted Ted Sorensen (whom the Clean Geners dislike). . . . Blair Clark, McCarthy’s campaign manager (and a former Harvard roommate of IFK) caught in the middle. Clark now says McCarthy has concluded that his campaign was a mistake; that he is now totally disillusioned with the Democratic Party.