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Publisher Dale claimed that he could not understand what all the fuss was about. "It's a bunch of hogwash," he said in a TV interview. "I don't think our reporters are second-class citizens. They can get appointments just like anybody else." And his paper devoted considerable space to explaining that all was shipshape at probate. "It is common knowledge," wrote Enquirer Reporter Caden Blincoe, "that the awarding of appraiserships is a way of returning favors-a form of dispensing political patronage. Patronage is not a dirty word in American politics." Or in the city room...
...They" were the Russians, and all the fuss was about the nine-day state visit of Russian Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin. To reciprocate the warmth of his reception in Moscow last June, De Gaulle seemingly left nothing undone for Kosygin's return visit. Although protocol did not demand it, he himself went to Orly Airport to greet Kosygin, later received him at the presidential palace through the gold-tipped Grille du Coq, usually reserved for presidents and kings. "Vous étes le trés bienvenu," said De Gaulle, making use of a courtly French superlative to show Kosygin...
...What's all the fuss? Even stodgy old Victorian Alfred Tennyson knew that "There lives more faith in honest doubt. Believe me, than in half the creeds...
That could have ended the fuss, but more militant Negroes pressed their demand that a Negro principal be named to present "the proper image." Donovan yielded again, announced that a transfer had been requested by white Principal Stanley R. Lisser, a respected administrator who had deliberately taken on Harlem assignments for ten years...
While secret-weapons research in peacetime may present ethical problems for a profession devoted to the broadest possible advancement of knowledge, the fuss at Penn seems more political than professional. The protest was originally raised by the Philadelphia Committee to End the War in Viet...