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Five thousand graduates hear messages of hope and warning
Boston area commencements feature warnings against empty protest and praise of space exploration. Clark University speaker Edward Welsh urges peace through space, while U Thant and John Karefa-Smart address human rights and poverty from Colby Wesleyan and BU. Kilian and Cushing offer wartime economy cautions as others celebrate degrees at multiple colleges.
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Boston
UPI
New England
Clark University
Worcester
Mass
Edward C. Welsh
National Aeronautics and Space Council
Boston University
Sierra Leona
Johannesburg
Meridian
Miss
Lourenco Marques
Warsaw
Santo Domingo
John Karefa-Smart
International Health
School of Public Health
Columbia University
U.S
U.S. Atty
Nicholas Deb Katzenbach
Tufts University
Medford
United Nations
U Thant
Colby College
Waterville
Maine
Education
Francis
Keppel
Wesleyan University
Middletown
Conn
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Emmanuel College
War Memorial Auditorium
Katzenbach
Washington
Boston College
Wellesley College
Wellesley
Saint Michael’s College
Winooski Park
Henry Cabot Lodge
South Viet Nam
Boston College Law School
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
Luella Hennessey
Walpole
Robert H.) Goddard
London
Clark
Dr. Goddard
Cain and Abel
Karefa Smart
United States
India
Ozarks
Roxbury
Karefa - Smart
Cardinal Cushing
Lowell Technological Institute
Lowell
Leverett
Wheaton College
Norton, Mass
Archibald MacLeish
Smith College
Northampton
Amherst College
Calvin H. Plimpton
American International Institute
Springfield
James R. Killian Jr
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corp
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley