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Burke's Peerage Ltd., of London, has written to ask for a copy of The TIME Audience in Heraldry (TIME, Sept. 19), which uses the ancient science of heraldry to symbolize the many groups that make up the readership of TIME. Burke's managing editor, L. G. Pine, passes along the information that heraldry is thriving and that hundreds of grants of arms are being made yearly by the proper heraldic bodies in Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Sweden, the U.S., and many other countries...
...troubles of U.S. democracy, Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse had long since decided, is that U.S. citizens are sometimes a little lazy when it comes to working at it-especially if the work involves going to a political meeting and asking a challenging candidate a few sharp questions. Last week Morse set out to make the process really easy. Seated in a little studio in station KERG in Eugene, he invited listening farmers and townspeople to pick up the phone and ask him a question. The questions came with a rush; it kept three people busy just taking...
International tensions since the war have brought under scrutiny freedoms that went unquestioned during the thirties. People now ask how much freedom should be permitted those whom they believe seek to destroy freedom, a questioning which has on occasion caused mass hysteria and endangered individual rights...
...didn't read the letter carefully," Beveridge said. "We thought it meant Harvard was supporting the Fund this year." Actually, the letter was just to thank the College for its contribution last fall, and to ask for support again this year...
...have been going along now for some time on the theory that education consists simply of experience and change and 'growth,' and this theory has not... furthered the millennium to any startling degree. Perhaps we need to set up some ends for education; perhaps we need to ask, 'Growth toward what...