JANUARY

Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, receives his induction notice. Visibly upset, Handlin appeals for support to the Harvard Faculty, but his request is tabled without discussion. "If just didn't seem to be an issue of any academic significance," explains John Rawls, professor of Philosophy.

President Johnson, in his fourth State of the Union message, insists that civilians "are not the sole target for our bombs." The Long Island newspaper Newsday hails Johnson's address as "a magnificent testament to the 1960's."

FEBRUARY

Author William Manchester, stricken with malaria, enters New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. Out of sympathy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) wires Manchester a prize ham. General Ky journeys incognito to Hong Kong to have his eves westernized.

MARCH

William Manchester, stricken with trichinosis, enters Flower Fifth Avenue Mrs. John F. Kennedy sends him a candy-gram. After a ten-minute walking tour of South Vietnam, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara predicts the war will be over by the end of 1964.

APRIL

In Hanoi on legal business, Richard M. Nixon lashes into President Johnson's Vietnam policy, calling the war "a cruel perversion of the peaceful course so long espoused by Pope Paul, myself, and John Foster Dulles."

Chief Justice Earl Warren dies of Dutch Elm disease. On his deathbed he mumbles inarticulately: "... Partrick Nugent... Texas School Book Depository... gak ... my heart!"

MAY

LBJ dips below the 20 per cent mark in the latest Louis Harris Poll. Arm in-arm with Ladybird and their two beagles, the President reminds reporters, "I'm still more popular than Jesus." Harrison Salisbury is arrested in Hanoi after photographing smiling North Vietnamese children in front of intact building.

JUNE

Honorary Harvard degrees go to Adam Clayton Powell ("he spoke his mind"), Gen. Wessiny Wessin ("he danced to distant drums"), and Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey ("he lived by the precepts of the prince of peace"). Richard Nixon, speaking in Fulton, Mo., accuses President Johnson of "shooting from the hip."

JULY