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When officials began proofreading the course catalogue last summer, one error may have received more than just a cursory glance from an editor's eye. Amidst numerous misspellings and addenda. Paul C. Martin '51, dean of the Division of Applied Sciences, received an unexpected promotion--to dean of the Faulty of Arts and Sciences...
...court's decisions since have essentially been refinements and tidying addenda. Last January in Eddings vs. Oklahoma, for instance, the Justices ruled that the judge or jury must consider any mitigating factor the convict claims. Yet to many observers, that sounds like a return toward uncontrollable discretion, the very flaw the court prohibited in 1972. Says former L.D.F. Lawyer David Kendall: "We're right back to Furman...
...TIME'S cover posed the question "Is God Dead?" The story discussed the emergence and growing voice of the "God is dead" school of theologians. It proved to be one of the most provocative articles the magazine has ever run, and for months the arguments and addenda kept coming in from concerned readers...
...correct the astigmatism of adulation that most contemporary historians bring to bear on their subjects. George Washington's ivory false teeth; Gladstone's predilection for reforming London streetwalkers; Lenin's fondness for a Franco-Russian woman during his pre-Revolution exile in Paris: all these trivial addenda lend a sense of humanity to the men who made history and help relate them to the banality of history as it is lived. Yet Jim Bishop, chrome-plated chronicler of "days" in the lives of Christ and Kennedy, Lincoln and-now-Lyndon Baines Johnson, carries the device...
...week's summary report was several months in the writing; staffers framed the first draft, but the commissioners themselves wrote much of the final version, often working until midnight. The book that they delivered to President Johnson had 706 pages of text and 158 pages of photographs, charts and addenda...