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...Korea, when "a medium high American officer was relieved of his command for what, so far as I could tell, was incompetence and nonperformance on a blatant scale, some of the homeside boys took this up and made him a martyr, ranting in paragraph after paragraph about the sins of the 'top brass.' I thought there was an air of needless controversy−professional hostility−about those reporters." Almost as if he were looking forward toward Vietnam, Rand concluded that the reporters were indulging in the same sort of "perfunctory muckraking, or imitation of crusading," that they...
...teaches the history of science at Cornell, Faraday is described with affection and his work with impressive lucidity. Anybody who knows enough about electricity to screw in a light bulb can follow most of Faraday's experiments as they are described in this book, and the occasional puzzling paragraph can only intensify the suspense of a scientific epic that is also a harrowing intellectual thriller...
...masterpiece of editorial journalism both in content and depth of achievement, paints a colorful articulation, a true and honest portrait of the American Jew. It is positive, yet critical. As a matter of fact, you too have captured the Jewish quality that you so aptly summarized in the last paragraph: ". . . it is sharp humor, often directed at oneself...
...suggest that President Johnson hire the editorial staff of TIME Magazine collectively as his chief adviser, since it was able to do in approximately 40 words in the first paragraph of your May 28th Nation section what McGeorge Bundy has been unable to do without alienating large segments of American society and of the press-state the aim of Washington with regard to the Dominican Republic, in a simple, sensible manner...
...President and his Secretaries have made it abundantly clear that they are trying to stop World War II in Vietnam. No opportunity should be missed to point out that such a goal is an anachronism and is impossible. The faculty members are missing such an opportunity. The paragraph should be retained. If necessary the italicised words could be dropped to avoid the interpretation which was feared. Richard A. Kraus Teaching Fellow in Economics