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...Specter, who is Jewish, allowed himself a lapse from good taste last week when he quipped that the Irish Catholic Tate was attending "a Communion breakfast in a brewery." Actually, it was a brewery workers' breakfast held in a church hall. Tate leaped on the crack as an insult to Catholics, and Specter publicly apologized. Having shown a 2-to-l advantage in the early opinion polls, Specter's lead over Tate in the latest samplings has dropped to 47% v. 41%, with the rest divided among splinter candidates or undecided...
...face of such evidence, in defiance of the editorial positions taken by both major Boston papers, Louise Day Hicks has consistently stuck to her guns in defending the superiority of the neighborhood school, even when that school was an insult to its own neighborhood, a scar, a cancer, detested, hated, feared. "I believe that little children should go to school in their own neighborhoods, with the children with whom they play. It is as simple as that...
...association strongly feels that any reduction in effort is an insult to 10,000 dead. Korea showed that any stalemate or bombing lull will result in a rapid Communist buildup. This nation has never walked away from world responsibility, and to do so now because of the political aims of a few would be a catastrophe unparalleled in our history...
Carl A. Baum '69, HUC representative from Adams House, made the only report of an irregularity in today's polling. The one student in Adams who "disagreed" with the parietal proposal, Baum said, went on to write that he regarded any parietals at all as an insult. Baum said other Adamsers refused to mark the poll because they found the HUC's proposal too conservative. Voting By House Agree Disagree Eliot 150 23 Adams 106 1 Quincy...
...quickly. He recalled his ambassador from Peking, fired two pro-Chinese ministers from his Cabinet and closed down all of Pnompenh's privately owned newspapers (one of which had printed the offending Chinese telegram). Sihanouk warned that he would break relations with Peking entirely "if China continues to insult us and interfere in our affairs." Then, knowing exactly how to jab the Maoists, he added that "the Chinese practice an imperialism stronger than the Americans...