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...Jefferson's mistress, Kennedy's indiscretions, Nixon's contempt for the law-is there no end to the exposes about the failings of U.S. Presidents? Apparently not, for now we hear that George Washington was absolutely awful at spelling, grammar and punctuation. Some samples from his writing: "I passed the time . . . much more agree-abler than what I imagined I should" and "went ahunting . . . and catched a fox." Among his misspellings: expedate, ingaged, turkie, burrying and bairskin...
David Rockefeller donated the largest single gift--$500,000--for the program. Thomas Jefferson Coolidge '54, who is assisting the University, has also contributed $250,000. But so far U.S. donors account for only $3.5 million...
Binger wrote "The Doctor's Job," "Revolutionary Doctor, Benjamin Rush, 1746-1813," "The Two Faces of Medicine," and "Thomas Jefferson, A Well-Tempered Mind...
...standards of 1976, when a clutch of candidates are lusting for the presidency, that anomie seems as remote as the Age of Jefferson. But it was typically Stevensonian. The candidate's constantly expressed reluctance endeared him to his followers, who considered him too good for politics, a man of rare sensibility and cultivated aloofness. There is much to support such a view of Stevenson in this first major biography, which carries him through his defeat in the 1952 presidential election...
...months after court-ordered busing went into effect in Louisville and the surrounding areas of Jefferson County (TIME, Sept. 15), more than 2,000 of the 129,000 children scheduled to attend public school in the district are still staying away from classes. Now local officials are moving to force recalcitrant parents into line. This week the first boycotting parents to go on trial before a jury will appear in a special court created last November. The charge: contributing to the truancy of their children. Says Juvenile Court Prosecutor Frank Burke Jr.: "We'll have more than...