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After reading the account in the Harvard Summer News of the most recent "teach-in." I wish to commend its sponsors. Truly profound thought was required to select mediocre burlesque comic Norman Mailer as a participant. Probably no other speaker could better garbage mouth the president of the United States, and in so doing, totally demean the stature of a Harvard forum. Was Mr. Mailer's diatribe necessary to insure "full academic freedom," "scholarly inquiry," or "full discussion of the issues...
...icily told the Midwestern professors he "could not give them high marks," was not to be found in Cambridge this week. At the Monday afternoon panel discussion, Bundy went out of his way to commend panel members for "good questions." As often as possible, he began his answers with "I agree with...
...members of the Royal Knights of the Boob Tube, we wish to commend you on your excellent article concerning collegiate TV customs [March 26]. The accuracy and insight that the story displayed have quite sufficiently done justice to this hallowed institution of academic America...
...heartily commend you for focusing attention on the most rapidly growing health menace in our country, emphysema [Feb. 5]. Your expectation that this disease might be the subject of intensive attack by medical scientists is indeed sound. The U.S. Public Health Service is already engaged in a forceful campaign to spur such an attack...
...Holy Communion in St. Margaret's, the House of Commons' parish church, the Archbishop of Canterbury intoned, "We commend to God Winston Spencer Churchill as he approaches death." A private message from the Pope was delivered by Monsignor Cardinale, the apostolic delegate to Britain. There were special prayers at Harrow, his old school, and at Castle Rising, near Sandringham. where the Queen and members of the royal family attended church...