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Wladyslaw Gomulka can refuse to issue visas to the West German bishops-but if he does, Pope Paul VI, who in the 1920s filled a diplomatic post in Warsaw and who would greatly like to attend the ceremonies at Czestochowa himself, can hardly overlook the insult to his church. The Vatican last week could only wait, and hope that Gomulka would simmer down...
...fact that Buckley had not done exactly what he wanted, which was to bring about the defeat of John Lindsay, was too obvious to overlook. "As a political kingmaker," Goldwater added, "you're a wrong-way Corrigan...
...perspective of the urban educator, he said, is often limited by "the myth of the unitary community"--the belief that the city is an organic whole, without important interest group cleavages. Thus, they tend to overlook special needs and impose a single curriculum on the whole city...
...than it does apparently to them. Their plan assumes, as they admit, the existence of a body of courses which are not in the catalogue at present. Yet they say that the plan can be put into operation "without sweeping immediate changes or expansion of offerings." What they overlook is the present nature of upper-level General Education courses: a hodge-podge of brilliant courses, that provide general education by any definition, and very narrow all-but-departmental courses. Someone is going to have to go over the roster of these courses carefully and decide whether the "History...
Among those who disagreed strongly with Lichtheim's appraisal was Morton H. Halperin, assistant professor of Government. The Times, Halperin explained, "shares the weakness of American newspapers in general in interpreting the domestic policies of other countries." But Lichtheim, he said, "shares a European tendency to overlook the degree to which facts are important," and "for the facts, the Times can't be beat...