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Blurted Theory. The blunt candor of the report surprised officials of both NASA and North American. Testifying before Texas Democrat Olin Teague's House Subcommittee on NASA Over sight, North American's top brass seemed defensive and often vague. "In spite of my feeling of deep responsibility for our organization," said Atwood, "I do feel that the responsibility must be widely shared." At one point, North American Vice President John McCarthy quarreled with the board's conclusion that faulty wiring probably caused the fire. Pressed for alternatives, he blurted: "It has been theorized that Grissom could have...
...radical tone of the encyclical and its blunt attack on capitalism were, understandably enough, endorsed with enthusiasm by Europe's Communist press. France's L'Humanité declared that "the evils that the encyclical calls attention to" are those that "Marxists have been calling attention to for more than a century." In fact, parts of Populorum Progressio had the strident tone of an early 20th century Marxist polemic-which, to some readers, was precisely its flaw...
...apparently convinced his colleagues that their report should be blunt in its criticisms -- not only of Vietnamese education but also of specific American decisions. One such decision was a recent order from the embassy in Saigon to cut off aid to the University of Hue because some students and faculty members had sacked a U.S. library there...
...terms of Section 28, Sanders is probably right. As long as the record is not blatantly prurient, the blunt words and sexual allusions have no bearing on its legal status. In a 1962 decision which vindicated Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled: "It was not relevant that the book at many places was repulsive, vulgar, or grossly offensive in use of four-letter words and in detailed and coarse statement of sexual episodes...
...Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel, the blunt-nosed leopard lizard, the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander and the Col orado River squawfish - to say nothing of the timber wolf, the grizzly bear and the American alligator - may soon go the way of the dinosaur: to extinction...