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...will be left with the impression from the story on Billy Casper [July 1] that he was fat and sick because he was a Congregationalist. Congregationalists are fat and sick, I am sure, in about the same proportion as members of any other religious group. However, if your readers infer that Casper became a superior golfer because he was first a Congregationalist, they may be nearer the truth. Congregationalists are often fine golfers, as I can attest on many a sunny Sunday morning...
...They Want Computers" [June 10], TIME says that "Bata Shoe" technicians showed up at the International Computer Exhibition in Prague. The context is such that readers might infer that Bata is a Communist operation headquartered in Czechoslovakia. But for more than 25 years there have been no contacts between Bata Ltd. and the Communists in any country; no members of our organization went to the Prague exhibition. Probably those technicians who appeared came from the nationalized Czechoslovakian footwear industry, which in the main comprises the factories belonging to the Bata organization that were expropriated some 20 years...
Fifteen minutes of the film, in which Coburn portrays a roguish playboy, were in Boston. DeHaven said that audiences are supposed to infer from the Boston location that Coburn and Miss Sparv are at Harvard. The University's name is not specifically mentioned...
Apparently, however, the University Administration feels differently. From the comments attributed to the understandably anonymous source quoted in yesterday's CRIMSON, I infer that May 2nd stands accused of a crime lying halfway between unHarvard activities and lese majeste. And in one of the most spectacular displays of semantic perversion since 1984, this accusation is justified as a defense of "academic freedom...
...pictures, compared with fewer than 200 meteor craters that can still be seen on Earth. - The planet's pock-marked surface, judging by what is already known of the moon's face, must be ancient-perhaps 2 billion to 5 billion years old-and well preserved. Scientists infer that Mars has never had a significant amount of water or an atmosphere denser than it is now, or else the Martian surface would show more signs of erosion. - There were no signs of the vaunted canals, and no Earthlike features such as mountain chains, great valleys or ocean basins...