Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your Aug. 15 article "Okinawa: Levittown-on-the-Pacific" should have been "Okinawa: Dependent's Paradise." . . . Take us away from this lushest of assignments and give us that rough Stateside duty...
...Carmine De Sapio [Aug. 22]: Do you honestly think that the Tammany Tiger under De Sapio has changed stripes, or that the people think so ? For all the whitewashing . . . the black stripes are still there, even though De Sapio has a new technique. He says Tammany is honest, and-ergo-that is supposed to make it honest. He should read Macbeth once again, to refresh his recollection about a "damned spot" that is still there...
Concerning the Aug. 22 report that the President's 13-month-old gift-heifer, Irvington Roamiss Pear, "reared up on her hind legs, clicked her front hooves, and gamboled into the pasture," we wonder if this is not a slight exaggeration. The three of us represent over 47 years of accumulated farming experience, but none of us ever witnessed such an event...
...Your Aug. 29 article on the I.R.A. shocked me . . . "In 1939, taking advantage of Britain's preoccupation with the coming World War II, the I.R.A. sought to revive the issue of partition by launching hundreds of terrorist bombings in Manchester and London." If I were of southern Irish lineage, and/or a sympathizer of the I.R.A., I would blush with shame. It's comparable to a naughty little boy kicking his mother in the rear as she stooped over to pick up the laundry. How juvenile...
...have with pleasure read your Aug. 15 article about "Metal Sculpture: Machine-Age Art." When I saw the picture...