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...want to thank you very much for giving my father a title [TIME, March 16]. I'm sure he deserves it, and I can't think how the Queen came to be so careless as to overlook this fact...
Certain performances in the supporting cast are not as one would have them, but the work of Joel Crothers, Kathrvn Humphreys, and Liz Stearns is eminently commendable. The Leverett House dining room remains the worst auditorium in the University, but the play and performance would make it worthwhile to overlook a setup considerably grubbier...
...unfortunate that the committee might be encouraged to overlook the non-academic considerations of admissions because of dissatisfactions with the relatively feeble record of the class of '61. This reversal is an isolated incident and the brilliant records of many preceding classes selected under the same admissions policy excludes the possibility of any direct cause and effect relationship...
Many companies, dazzled by the glamour of automation, have leaped into it before looking at costs or determining whether they really need to automate. "Some managements," says Automation Expert John Diebold, president of John Diebold & Associates, "are so eager to buy the hardware that they will unconsciously overlook some of their cost figures to prove they need one." They do not realize that preparing for and converting to automation can cost as much as the computer itself. Before leasing a brain at $16,000 a month, Republic National Bank of Dallas had to send ten employees to school...
...stars (Charles Boyer, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Inger Stevens and the berugged Brynner), 55 featured players, 100 bit-players, 12,000 calls for extras, 60,000 props-including 15 authentic pirogues, $100,000 worth of genuine antique furniture and two boxcarloads of Spanish moss and cypress trees. Not to overlook one of the best true-adventure stories in American history...