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...appalling to read of Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln's latest memoirs [Feb. 23]. I am ashamed that President Johnson must suffer another unwarranted assault at the hands of those who avow devotion to Kennedy; it seems nothing less than a betrayal of a man who would never have hit another publicly with "locker room" gossip. He gave Khrushchev more dignity than that. It is a pity that President Kennedy's grace and respectful demeanor didn't communicate itself to Mrs. Lincoln...
...average freshman, like her counterpart at Harvard, has been admitted to the University by a rather mysterious process. Even official literature from the Dean's Office may avow that "the number of qualified applicants far exceeds the number of available places." Certainly most students can name a few high school friends who "should have" been admitted. Convincing himself that he deserved his letter of acceptance is difficult for the Harvard freshman. Everyone admits that the community which he is entering provides few universally-accepted standards. In groups seem to reject each other's criteria: group standing, athletic prowess or membership...
...fairness, it must be recognized that the hapless professor would probably not have fared better at many private institutions who avow a more liberal philosophy, but the uneasy resolution of the case left unanswered the question of just what bounds circumscribe the freedom of inquiry and expression at the University...
Whatever the vagaries of research methods, the paper by Litwin et al, makes it clear that its authors avow a commitment to "research on the short term and long term effects of psilocybin plus situation, and on the possible social uses of psilocybin.... Asking those people who are participating with us in making decisions and setting up programs to take the drug themselves is not evasive, but rather an attempt to bring as much knowledge and experience as possible to bear on these problems.... [However,] confrontation or, as it were, understanding the problem from the inside may be fruitful...
Monroe decided that the time had come for the U.S., on its own, to warn the Old World to let the New World alone. Adams thoroughly approved of the idea of a unilateral declaration. "It would be more candid as well as more dignified," he said, "to avow our principles explicitly to Russia and France than to come in as a cockboat in the wake of the British man-of-war." For All the World to Heed. Adams wanted to communicate the U.S. declaration to France and Russia through the normal channels of diplomacy, but Monroe decided to incorporate...