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...outrageous menagerie of nitpickers and by his own absence of ambition. But his happy inconsequence irritates a blue-eyed, butterfat young stenographer and she dangles herself in front of Humphrey like a hunk of process cheese. Mouse that he is, he leaps for the bait and begins to assert himself around his office. Abruptly, he is buried under freshly picked nits.' "Kay," he whispers, "you've got the wrong man. I can't change the world." Her reply: "You can change your life, Humph, you can show them all that a civil servant isn't necessarily...
...shocked to see you assert [June 24] that Kemal Ataturk "publicly described Islam as 'this theology of an immoral Arab.' " Ataturk never made such a statement-publicly or privately. Two biographies, which you must have used as your source material, can in no way be considered concrete, authoritative evidence. Ataturk achieved many great reforms, among which was the secularization of the Turkish state, but he never said, or even implied, that this separation of the state from religion was in favor of atheism or irreverence for Islam. Ataturk personally believed in the teachings of Islam...
...moment they first got fragmentary reports of Mao Tse-tung's "secret" speeches propounding the heretical notion that there can be "contradictions" between a Communist government and its people (TIME. May 27), Western experts have been debating whether or not Red China's boss was trying to assert ideological independence of Moscow. Last week, as Polish Communists began to leak quotations from his pronouncements, it became apparent that Chairman Mao was putting himself on a par not just with Khrushchev but with the prophets of Marxism. "Marx and Engels." Mao had said with bland Oriental condescension...
Sullivan terms his a "strong union" and claims that it would be able to back up its demands at the bargaining table. He thinks the HUERA lacks the strength and contractual right to assert its demands...
HUERA officials also assert that fringe benefits such as insurance, vacations, and holidays at the University are equal to, if not better than, those offered elsewhere. "The new Harvard sick plan is the best anywhere," Stone comments...