Word: nov
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...fascinated by your story "America's New Manners" and Social Arbiter Letitia Baldrige [Nov. 27]. After all, when all's said and done, it's really quite simple. Good manners are best defined by the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto...
...need Ted Kennedy as President to "feel good again," as you say in "Recalling the Kennedys" [Nov. 27], our American malaise runs deeper than the horrors of Guyana would indicate. Let's face it. There never was a Camelot...
...disgraceful conduct of striking teachers at Levittown [Nov. 27] is further proof that unions of government employees should be outlawed. Tire-slashing and window-breaking criminals should not be allowed to teach. Unions are the antithesis of liberty...
...seems incredible to me that Public Health Researcher Foltz and Epidemiologist Kelsey, described in your story "Flap About Pap" [Nov. 13], would put down the Pap smear on the basis of "considerable expense." This relatively simple test, which can detect cancer, costs only about $6. Further, if the test does not detect cancerous conditions 25% to 30% of the time, isn't this all the more reason to have checkups annually and not every three to five years...
During the ACSR meeting of Nov. 29, 1978, the following hypothetical situation was discussed: if the whole Harvard community (variously defined as 90 to 99 per cent) were to favor the initiation of a shareholder resolution in a company, should the Harvard Corporation be bound to take the action? The answer of these members was no, because, in the words of one, it was "too much democracy." Since some committee members have shown what I consider paternalistic attitudes towards South African blacks, suggesting that blacks do not know what is best for themselves, I wonder why these members should doubt...