Word: aug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should federal aid [Aug. 27] be rendered to an area that was instrumental in its own destruction? Why should crime...
...reported [Aug. 27] that "police in Mississippi's Amite County pointedly photographed Negroes waiting to register, menacingly asked them who their nearest white neighbors were." Then you began your Essay with the asinine statement: "Any Negro-literate or illiterate-who fails to vote in future elections will only have his own ignorance or indifference to blame." Need I say more...
...Your article on Hillhouse High School [Aug. 27] is puzzling. As one who has read transcripts from Hillhouse for 19 years and watched Hillhouse graduates live up to expectations, I find it difficult to believe the charges made against the principal. Colleges don't judge students solely on senior-year interim marks. If there were serious altering of marks at any large high school, the fraternity of admission officers, a gossipy group, would know about it; so would all the students and teachers in the high school. There is still a lot of mystery in this case...
...Your obituary on Clarence N. Sayen, former president of the Air Line Pilots Association [Aug. 27], properly recognizes his many contributions to air safety. But you say that he "called senseless strikes against the airlines in a bitter struggle for control of the smaller Flight Engineers Union." A review of the record will show that while the Air Line Pilots Association advocated that all aircraft flight-deck crew members be pilot-qualified, Mr. Sayen called no strikes to enforce this view. However, the Flight Engineers Union called several and was responsible for the resulting air-transportation shutdowns...
...Down through history, the upper class has been entertained [Aug. 27] by clowns, buffoons and sideshows, so nothing has really changed...