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...trying to cram Senator Kennedy down our throats via your Oct. 28 issue? His Jackson, Miss, speech doesn't make him President nor does his swimming (via TV's Navy Log) make him a hero...
...prepare for these ill-defined and sprawling areas? And once that Scylla is somehow desperately skirted, what of the Charybdis of the thesis? So many questions arise here that it is no wonder that only one solution seems at all sure; make the thesis a long one, cram it with learned footnotes and keep your own feelings and taste...
...memo to overseas staffers notifying them that henceforth the U.S. "will normally not be prepared to finance publicly owned industrial and extractive enterprises." Lower-level career people in the State Department promptly planted stories in the metropolitan press accusing Hollister of distorting State Department policy, of trying to cram free enterprise down the throats of foreign governments as the price of getting U.S. aid. Headlines said the State Department had "repudiated" Hollister and that nothing had been changed...
Both tutorial for credit and course reduction offer gradeless, relatively independent study for some students. The line between them blurs, and it is hard to tell how much tutorial for credit succeeds when it is anything but a thesis course or a cram session for generals. Not too many students avail themselves of this privilege, which is infrequently pushed by departments...
...most telling critique came from George K. Moriarty, telegraph editor of the Hartford Times (circ. 116,012), who wrote: "The ground plan and execution of the news story today are as out of date as sonnet writing or the sleigh ride." By long usage, wire services and most newspapers cram the major facts into the first paragraph, then return to each point later for fuller treatment. The result is repetition that taxes both "the paper's newsprint supply [at $135 a ton] and the reader's patience"; it also impairs the readability of many stories that would gain...