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...federal General Services Administration has expressed its confidence in Maguire Inc., and they will continue to employ them to write the authoritative report. It is amusing to note that even while the GSA was trying to decide whether to fire Maguire for professional misconduct under political pressure, this terse paragraph appeared in the Short Circuits column of the April 14 Boston Globe: "Former Rep. Peter Cloherty of Brighton, a 'public relations' consultant for Maguire Associates engineering firm, is using Congressman Thomas P.O'Neill's name in his endeavor to swing a big contract for his client...
...have read and approved the statement in this issue concerning my tenure article of June, 1972. I regret any inferences of personal corruption that some readers may have drawn from the paragraph concerning Professors Landes and Higonnet. Arthur H. Lubow...
...into the party, that I give "we" answers to "me" questions, and so on. This is the "reds are dehumanized machines with no individuality" bait. Now come on, Shapiro, give me a break, you can't have it both ways. Don't you think people can remember from one paragraph to the next and spot a glaring contradiction...
Allow me to correct some of the impressions that may have been left by Jeffrey Dunn's piece ("Layzer Wants SAT's Replaced by Specific Competence Tests," April 9). My article in the March 29 issue of Science, referred to in the opening paragraph of The Crimson story, neither mentions SAT's nor does it have any direct implications concerning their use by college admissions officers. Since SAT scores are good statistical predictors of scholastic performance in the freshman year, they are clearly relevant to the selection process. I agree with Henry Dyer, a recently retired vice-president of Educational...
Cook also admitted he had told a congressional committee that he decided to change the paragraph in the Vesco complaint the day before Stans called him to suggest a switch. Further, Cook acknowledged that he had brought up the matter of Vesco's mysterious $250,000 three times to Stans. Why should Cook have done that? The defense left the implication that Cook had been trying to use the Vesco affair to try to pressure Stans into supporting...