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...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...
...Limit." Standing in the rococo Senate Caucus Room, Minnesota's Eugene Joseph McCarthy, 51, a sardonic intellectual and an outspoken critic of Viet Nam policy, announced that he will enter at least four of next spring's primaries as a Democratic antiwar candidate opposing Lyndon Johnson...
Died. Maximos IV Cardinal Sayegh, 89, Patriarch of Antioch and leader of Roman Catholicism's Eastern Melchite Rite; of cancer; in Beirut. One of the fathers of Vatican II, the outspoken patriarch stirred the Council by urging a college of bishops to advise the Pope, an idea that was implemented last September when the Synod of Bishops convened in Rome...
...public denouncements from within Greece have come in recent weeks from two leaders of the right wing. One was formerpremier Kanellopoulos, who is making a calculated effort to appear a defiant leader of the suppressed Greeks. He is too well-known to persecute, too significant to ignore. The other outspoken critic was Mrs. Eleni Vlachou, a conservative newspaper owner who has refused to publish under censorship. When she called the junta "ignorant people," she did not know she would be quoted. Nevertheless, she refuses to deny her statement...
Some Tories were recklessly outspoken in their opposition to independence. "Damn the rebels!" cried one Massachusetts Tory. "I wish they were all scalped; damn the Congress to hell." Like a latter-day emissary to Hanoi, a Pennsylvania Tory named Samuel Shoemaker made his way to Windsor Castle and emerged after an interview to proclaim the kind of admiration for George III that occasional U.S. visitors have felt for Ho Chi Minh: "I wished some of my violent countrymen could have such an opportunity. They would be convinced that George III has not one grain of tyranny in his composition...