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Burdens of History Sir: As a devout member of the Anglican Communion, I am profoundly shocked by the bias and misinformation in the June 6 article entitled "Two Miracles & 40 Saints." Granted that Roman Catholics were persecuted by members of my church in those days, this article seems to gloss over the fact that it was a terrible age when all religions persecuted all other religions e.g., Bloody Mary. FRANKLIN W. BARTLE Martinsville...
...effectively halted, mobs snake-danced through the streets, paraded past the Diet and the U.S. embassy, shouting "Down with Kishi" and "Eisenhower don't come." Ranging from Communists to Kabuki actors,* the mob included one group whose banner bore a likeness of Christ; true to the left-wing bias common among students at missionary-founded schools in the Far East, a contingent even showed up from St. Paul's University, partially supported by the U.S. Episcopal Church...
...Bias Against Cats. For 2½ hours, the dictator of all the Russias alternately ranted and wheedled, sought to persuade and intimidate, told rambling anecdotes. As for American "aggressors," he said, they should be treated the way Russian peasants treat cats that steal cream or break into pigeon lofts. When he was young, cried Nikita, "we would catch such a cat by the tail and bang its head against the wall, and that was the only way it could be taught some sense...
...dances, which had been banned at the Quaker-founded school. The Kornitzer book seems to be about an entirely different man from William Costello's bleak study, The Facts About Nixon (Viking; $3.95), which first appeared in abbreviated form in the New Republic. Reporter Costello shows his bias in every turn of phrase, and the sinister Nixon he presents is no closer to the real...
...toll. In lieu of thinly veiled assaults on brass pomposity, there are special homemaking articles for military wives and front-page stories about some general officer's advancement in rank. There are no crusades; political news is calipered inch for inch so that neither party can claim bias. The long arm of peacetime censorship hangs implicitly over every page. Recently, an editor of the European Stripes was denied permission to reprint some Bill Mauldin war cartoons on the ground that "they show officers in a bad light.' The famous Stripes pinup art of Work War II has disappeared...