5 on Faculty Sign Ad Blasting 'Extremists'

The National Council for Civic Responsibility yesterday asked citizens to "help put the spotlight on America's extremist fringe." Five Harvard Faculty members joined in signing the plea, published as a full-page advertisement in the New York Times.

The 124 signers included Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History; Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus; Carl Kaysen, associate dean of the Faculty of Public Administration; Don K. Price, dean of the Faculty of Public Administration; and George Cabot Lodge '50, administrative assistant for Central American Studies at the Business School.

The Council said that the John Birch Society and other groups were spending $20 million a year to "re-write American history."

"Good American citizens in cities and towns across the nation are being harrassed by midnight phone calls, spled upon and intimidated for standing up to extremism," the advertisement claimed.