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...paper. "He gets into every nook and cranny," says Pulitzer, an art collector whose own local activities are confined pretty much to cultural causes. "If he sees an opening, he's in there. I try to be careful to disassociate myself from boards and committees that could distort my news judgment." Retorts Amberg, who has just raised more than $1,000,000 for a Herbert Hoover Boys' Club he is sponsoring in a Negro neighborhood of St. Louis: "How can you tell what's going on in a community unless you're part...
Psychedelic drugs do not distort or twist the brains perception of beauty, the letter says, nor do they necessarily lead to permanent psychosis, brain damage, or genetic damage...
...that the President feels that protests like Saturday's foreshadow the rise of a strong anti-Johnson political force. To distort the movement's character is no way of dealing with it. Instead, this tactic only serves to spotlight more garishly than ever the intellectual and diplomatic bankruptcy of America's present policy in Vietnam...
...professors who fought for the proposal made no secret of their intentions. They did not like the possibility of having the grades they handed out used at some future date to help determine a student's military status. They felt it would distort the purpose and importance of grades. They rightly found the Selective Service's attempts to tell "good" students from "bad" distasteful and were suspicious of the entire deferment system...
...advantages of the F-plan are obvious. Students will not concentrate excessively upon getting high grades in the course, and the teacher is spared the responsibility of making the decisions which may so seriously affect a student's future. Unlike the A-plan, the F-plan does not distort the educational process by encouraging a student to take a course solely because he will get a good grade. Indeed, under the F-plan, a teacher will be teaching only serious minded students who clearly are interested in taking the course for its own merits...