Word: factualism
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...your story on the press coverage of the Nixon campaign, you [report] Philip Potter of the Baltimore Sun as saying I called his publisher to complain about a press-conference question posed by him. This is one of the factual inaccuracies in the story. No such protest was made. To give another example, I noted the story depicts the traveling newsmen as paying little attention to the Vice President when he dropped in on a press reception at Billings. I believe the newsmen I know are more alert than this, and the fact is they crowded around...
Similarly, the committee's contention that "a separate honor system and different rules for conduct are also advantages of continued separation" does not stand up to factual examination. With nearly all exams now administered only at Harvard, Radcliffe's academic honor system has already been effectively stifled. As for the social honor system and different rules of conduct, almost every co-educational college or university in the United States has been capable of setting up disparate rules to cover the hours and activities of men and women Surely Harvard is not really less efficient than the University of Illinois...
...accusations of "bright-eyed kids," I found your Sept. 15 article concerning the high schools of Downey to be most revealing. Now I know, firsthand, why I shall never cancel my subscription to your magazine: What other publication offers so much entertaining reading without the intrusion of factual and accurate reporting...
...your Eichmann article is factual, the Israelis are as vengeful as the Nazis and are equally culpable in flouting common law. For the Israel government to perpetrate and condone such acts can only cause the world to lose sympathy. L. W. HUNCKE Kansas City...
...Harvard professors, necrophiles, lesbians, and good, honest Indiana farmers. He afflicts them variously with lust, greed, chronic childbirth, madness, lung surgery and death by water, gunshot, prolonged beating and Addison's disease. As it is customary for costume novelists to concern themselves also with a certain amount of factual information-the politics of Lorenzo's court, or the intra-igloo mores of Eskimos-Robinson acquaints his readers along the way with the history and techniques of the U.S. whisky industry from 1840 till Prohibition...