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...caught with my hand in the till." Expecting his refusal, the board then dismissed him outright. He was not exactly penitent. "I think it is interesting," he remarked, "that the Daily Mirror under Mr. Cudlipp will now presumably switch over support to the Labor Party just in time to nail the flag to the mast of the ship as it goes down. I think it is a mistake. He presumably does not." Replied Cudlipp: "The most endearing aspect of Cecil's complex character was always his Irish sense of humor...
...City, USA was above all uncomfortable and boring. Nothing was going on. There were some visitors: Stokely Carmichael drove up in a white Mercury station wagon, sucking a lollipop. He rapped with the folks, and they loved him. But he left. Sen. Charles Percy came to drive in a nail. Mayor Walter Washington and the Chairman of the City Council John W. Hechinger came "to see how things were coming...
Your vote favoring Kennedy over McCarthy came as a great shock to me. My background first. I am a white haired fifty year old establishment lady who has fought tooth and nail for what the young people were telling us. I even gave up buying saran wrap in the Walter Mitty hope of converting production of napalm at Dow Chemical to better things. I rode in a jeep to Freedom Square in October and spent two nights on a bus with little to eat and almost two days standing around and walking with little to eat and not much chance...
...most outspoken critics of the S.A.T.s is Social Critic Martin L. Gross, a lecturer at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, who began his crusade against testing in 1962 with a book called The Brain Watchers. He calls S.A.T.s "the nail in the coffin of American intellectualism," since their emphasis on "certainty and right answers" makes test-taking ability "the criterion for college performance, and measures it badly." Gross and other critics deplore the pressure on students to score well on the tests. Many schools prep their students on the kind of vocabulary and mathematical skills tested...
...watch the worm beneath my nail...