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Senate confirmation. The Democrats claim that Johnson informed Nixon of his plans for Goldberg when the pair met at the White House on Nov. 11. Ignoring probity and protocol, they charge, Nixon then telephoned Warren without informing Johnson and asked the Chief Justice to preside at his swearing-in ceremony and to remain on the court until next June. According to this version, Warren agreed, not knowing of Johnson's intentions...
Your Tuesday editorial "No More Bricks" exhibits the most unbelievable shortsightness. Your claim is that Radcliffe should spend no more money on new dormitories because students today demand off-campus housing. This is merely a thinly cloaked desire to drive away many low income families from the Cambridge area since cartels of Harvard and Radcliffe students are willing to pay exorbitant rents that no working family man can afford. On the contrary, Radcliffe should continue its dormitory building program, and should require that students live on campus...
...figures. The lower economic half of the country's families usually won't bother trying to meet the costs representing two and one-half years' earnings. Harvard's reply is that almost anyone can attend if he is accepted (i.e., "has the ability). This is an important claim for it states that once applications are in, once socio-economic factors have done their work and it's Harvard's turn, the process is a meritocracy. The Admissions Office has basked up this statement. The only way to test it is to look at the applicant group as a whole...
...religious groups claim that civil marriages would break the unity of the nation, for it would be impossible to make certain of the Jewish background of potential wives and husbands. Because of this concern, remarriages after civil divorces which are not performed by the rabbis may result in "bastard" children, who, according to the religious groups, are out of the pale of Jewish life...
...consequence, aesthetic considerations must take second place to the social and political ones in criticizing such a book. With artistic considerations aside, Mr. Styron's novel is little more than an attempt to demean Nat Turner and the black people. The book fails to make good its claim to historical veracity and perpetuates a large number of anti-black myths and assumptions...