Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the joint session of Congress, Borman urged continued support of the space program beyond the moon landing. "Exploration is really the essence of human spirit," he said, "and I hope that we never forget that." In a lighter vein, he described the Christmas Eve reading from Genesis and a particularly "historic" accomplishment: "We got that good Roman Catholic Bill Anders to read from the King James version." Then, looking down at the Supreme Court Justices seated in the House chamber, Borman had an afterthought. "But now that I see the gentlemen in the front...
Flapping Galoshes. Lorimer made fiction king, and fiction writers princes. There was something close to divine right in Irvin S. Cobb's tone when he remarked, "The uncanny soundness of its literary judgment is demonstrated firstly by the fact that more people on this planet read the magazine and like it than any other magazine. And secondly by the fact that it buys nearly everything I write." F. Scott Fitzgerald walked the Post's cork-floored editorial corridors, his galoshes flapping, selling the short stories that kept him living high between books...
...heavyweight champion of the world if you live in Boston? In San Francisco? If you read Riag Magazine...
...Edward Wilcox, secretary of the CEP, denies that the ROTC memorandum had any influence on the drafting of the CEP resolution on ROTC, and claims not to have read it. We do not question his veracity; the fact that there is fundamental agreement between the CEP resolution and the recommendations of the Army ROTC Instructor Group by no means implies collusion. On the contrary, it seems rather irresponsible of the CEP to have ignored the wealth of factual material in that elaborate memo, and in fact highly insulting to the ROTC instructors who must have spent months compiling the documents...
...lies behind this conclusion. In fact, because of the small number of administrators and the absence of any formal chain of command among them, often one does not know what the other is doing (not to mention that no one knows what the Med School is doing until they read the Boston papers). Last summer, for example, the Real Estate Office contracted to sell two houses to a local real estate agent, even though another office had proposed--albeit some time previously--to sell the houses to a neighborhood association. After tempers had flared, the officers of the association finally...