Friday, Jun. 21, 1968

IN response to many requests from readers, TIME is making available reproductions of last week's cover portrait by Artist Louis Glanzman of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The black-and-white copies, 15 in. by 20 in., will carry neither the TIME logotype nor the magazine's familiar border. They may be obtained by sending $1 to TIME Cover Enlargement, Box 668, Radio City Station, New York, N.Y. 10020. At Mrs. Kennedy's request, all proceeds will go to a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Fund, which his family is establishing to support the causes for which he fought.

As noted in this week's Education section, commencement speakers fanned out across the U.S. to offer earnest advice to this year's graduates. Among the speakers were two from Time Inc.

> Andrew Heiskell, Chairman of the Board, addressed a predominantly Negro audience at Shaw University, a Baptist college in Raleigh, N.C. Said Heiskell: "You black graduates who leave here--you black students who will follow--face a society whose institutions go hand in hand with a history of debasement, discrimination, deceit, hypocrisy and bigotry. The opportunity is for this generation of black Americans to remake the society. Those who take a lesser view underestimate the significance, or even the dimension, of the change that has taken place. For this generation has discovered itself, and in its newly found, self-gained pride lies the promise of altering the black man's role. You have overcome. Now you must overtake."

Heiskell urged the students to "honor individuality, while you oppose an individual or his group--for it has made you yourself. Honor your father and mother, and their parents before them, while you despise what was done to them--for they have given you your perseverance and strength. And bless your color--for in the history of nations it will forever be known that it was the black American who caused the reformation of this society--and the restoration of this republic to the principles on which it was founded."

> Hedley Donovan, Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc., who addressed graduates of the University of Rochester, talked to them about their "contract" with the U.S. presidency. Donovan noted "a deepening paradox in our American system. We have been getting more and more dependent, as a nation, on a strong presidency; at the same time we have been becoming a more and more democratic society."

Observing that there are 33 million people in the U.S. who now have some college education, Donovan said that there has been "a vast diffusion of education and influence, and a multiplication of decision-making places throughout our society. Yet at the same time, the growing complexity of the problems we face at home and abroad, and the heavy emotional content of these problems, makes the moral leadership of the President more and more often the crucial factor. You will lead Presidents no less than being led by them," Donovan concluded. "Hold Presidents and yourselves, then, to the highest standards of civic courage, compassion and honor."

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