In the headlines: A Falls Church man reportedly received a cable suggesting that his brother, AID official Gustav C. Hertz, could still be alive after his capture by the Vietcong (bottom right). Two months later Hertz was reported to have died from malaria while in captivity.
White reporters are driven out of a press briefing by super-militant delegates at the National Conference of Black Power (center column). But the death of the great American poet Carl Sandburg, 89, leads the front page. A quote from his poem "Cool Tombs" runs below Sandburg's photo:
    "When Abraham Lincoln was shoved into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the assassin . . . in the dust, in the cool tombs."