Word: ought
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Your story "A Matter of Morale" [June 16] was amusing, interesting and factual-and you shouldn't ought to have done it. Curt LeMay doesn't like us anyway, and now that he knows that we live almost as well as the demigods of the Strategic Air Command, there will be hell...
...define the American attitude toward tipping, a perennial presence which-like wet martinis, shaving, the traffic problem and Christmas cards-can be resisted but can probably never be banished. The Hemingway attitude is what everybody yearns for, but no one finds; the O'Hara attitude is what everybody ought to stick to, although the situation is increasingly complex; and the Marquand menace is what more and more people face. On their summer travels across the U.S. this year, Americans will run into many regional tipping differences. New Yorkers will be overcome when a Southern taxi driver not only thanks...
...American Negroes. "This just makes legal what we've been doing all along," said one dean. But Miami President Jay F. W. Pearson made clear that the move was deliberate and far-reaching. Said he: "We all recognized that sooner or later we would integrate. Some said it ought to begin at the graduate level, but some of us said, 'Why do it in steps? If you believe it's right, you do it and get it over with.' If you are going to depict the image of our country to highly integrated countries of South...
...Guard-were it not for the annual training in Gulfport. Says Louisiana's Colonel Milton O. Barth: "It's a real fine morale factor." Says Lieut. Colonel Daniel F. Hynes, the 159th's executive officer: "These men are dedicated." They sure are -and they sure ought...
...deal with an educational problem, in this case the transition from school to college. But unlike the famous "Redbook" on which General Education was founded, the newer study drew on a lengthy questionnaire given to college students to find out how they learned as well as what they ought to learn. It was, in this sense, an intermediate step between Gen Ed--which simply set down what ought to be taught--and the Freshman Seminars--which were almost exclusively concerned with the method rather than the content of education...