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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magnum to TIME for your photopus on Florida! I regret that the format did not permit presentation of one of the most pressing problems in our state-educational quality in the several state universities. Quality is subtle, but there is nothing subtle about the continuing loss of outstanding teachers and researchers from one's alma mater for better opportunities elsewhere. The "pursuit of excellence" is becoming a rout! The demand for "rigor" in education is fast yielding to rigor mortis instead...
When Accuser Lisagor paused for breath, Max Freedman, capital correspondent for England's Manchester Guardian, tired from another flank. The conference format, said Freedman suavely, is rich in ''entrenched blunders," but thanks to Kennedy's rhetorical skill, "the structure of the English sentence is no longer left as a dishonored casualty." Freedman generously split the blame for the conference format's failure between the reportorial inquisitors-"the only class appointed without an examination to conduct cross-examination"-and President Kennedy, who is compelled to endure "the ultimate cruelty of thinking aloud under pressure...
After its meeting the Class Committee said that a Latin diploma is not hypocritical and disputed Pusey's opinion that the new format was aesthetically pleasing...
...KMOX could claim a resounding success. Its afternoon audience had jumped 28% above its disk-jockey days; advertising time on the all-talk program (now expanded to seven hours daily) was sold solidly. Other CBS stations in Boston, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia had picked up the same format, and officials of at least eight other stations (from Winnipeg to Mexico City) have traveled to St. Louis to listen-and, perhaps, do likewise...
...worthwhile to have the President submit himself to questions from the press. The real use of the presidential press conference is to enable the President to explain his policies and, if necessary, to compel him to explain them." In this respect, added Columnist Lippmann, the Kennedy conference format has been a failure: "President Kennedy, with all his political genius, is not yet in full effective communication with the people...