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...commend your organization for the fine examples of the "sophisticated smear" technique, which you are so ably employing against the Democratic candidate, his family, friends, and hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1960 | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

...would like to commend you on your fine article and pictures concerning America's new embassies abroad. Each of the buildings seems to display a serenity and respect for the culture of the country in which it is located. Certainly the quiet dignity of such structures at sites around the world will make a definite contribution to U.S. prestige abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 1, 1960 | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

...would like to commend you on the fine and enlightening article, "Birdbrained." Though one may not agree with all that the National Council of Churches of Christ does, to infer that it or the Revised Standard Version of the Bible is Communist is, as your article well pointed out, silly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 21, 1960 | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...that nature no longer suffices to supply our needs." Tertullian's view that "pestilence, famine, war and earthquakes must be regarded as a remedy for this condition, a pruning, as it were, of the too fruitful human race" was a commonplace in the ancient world, but will hardly commend itself, morally or scientifically, to population experts today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 25, 1960 | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...probably have little to say about foreign affairs in his senatorial campaign, but much to say about the farm program; he wants a minimum farm income to match labor's minimum wage. This is a formula that can do him no harm in the Senate race, and might commend him to Massachusetts' Kennedy, a big-city, East Coast boy who could use help in unfamiliar agricultural territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IOWA: The Music Man | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

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