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McNamara pointed out that during his November trip to Saigon he had seen U.S. troops spending their off hours dispensing medicine to villagers and helping to build schools. "Now I do not mean to say that every American over there is a welfare worker," said the Defense Secretary. "But neither is every American over there a patronizer of a prostitute, and I do not think the New York Times or any other periodical ought to leave that impression...
With such a wealth of art, a favorite guessing game on three continents has been: Who will get the collection? London's Tate Gallery offered to build a museum in Regent's Park to house it. Israel was willing to match all offers; so was Zurich, Switzerland. At home, Los Angeles wanted the collection for its new museum; Governor Nelson Rockefeller wanted it for New York State; the Baltimore museum offered to build a separate wing. Hirshhorn himself at various times was rumored to be alternately considering turning his Greenwich home into a museum or planning to build...
Ethical Culturists wince at being labeled atheists, but their basic premise is that man can help build himself a better society based on a rational morality and human cooperation without reference to belief in God. Founder of the movement was Felix Adler, a rabbi's son and professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at Cornell, who reluctantly decided that there was no hope of reforming Judaism from within. Giving up religious practice, Adler in 1876 undertook a series of Sunday morning lectures on contemporary moral issues. Among his early followers was Samuel Gompers, first president of the American Federation...
Harvard had hoped to build the House on a plot of land behind Dunster House, but has been unable to make the necessary purchases to unify the site. Thus frustrated, the University has now asked the architects for the House to investigate an alternate location...
Despite the recent press build-up, Alfred is characteristically serious about his teaching, which still has top priority. "My teaching is my business and my students' -- not the newspaper. I know less about education than about drama, for heaven's sake. It's really getting he has some definite opinions on the subject. "The first thing is never underestimate the intelligence of the student. I think it's important to try to break down the sense of the course as something done for the sake of the university and make it for the student himself." He says he uses anecdotes...