Word: reports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your associate editor's report on the Dominican Republic [May 25] is insulting to my country and unfactual and contradictory in its appraisal of the progress that we have achieved without any foreign help. Mr. Daniels must have spent his three days in my country soaked in Dominican rum and blinded by the tropical sun if he didn't see the many large beautiful public schools, the big modern hospitals, the new university city, the newly constructed and well-paved roads, the ports, and the hundreds upon hundreds of public facilities built by my government...
...have just returned from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. My husband listed his occupation as "Radio and TV"-and nobody followed us. We saw the troops drilling, the homes of all the Trujillo relatives and the poverty. However, contrary to your report, no one fixed the slot machines or the gambling tables in our favor. As Americans we find the doctrine of dictatorship hard to take under any circumstances, but we could not help noticing that our own Puerto Rico was embroiled in a violent telephone strike, with communications cut by unthinking "free" citizens, who apparently only know...
Thus last week did New Mexico's Clint Anderson report on the progress of his battle against the confirmation as U.S. Secretary of Commerce of one of the nation's ablest and thorniest public figures: Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 63, longtime member and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and a man whose governmental career Anderson has sworn to end. Despite Anderson's optimism, the outcome of that battle was still in cliff-hanging doubt, with the decision likely to swing on two or three Senate votes-and with the U.S. already the loser...
Much less successful at Harvard are Newsweek (a sixth read it), David Lawrence's conservative U.S. News and World Report (an eighth), Max Ascol's Reporter (a tenth). Only a twentieth read either the liberal Nation or New Republic, and a mere handful look at Bill Buckley's infant National Review...
...generally equal in their interest in religion and in their degree of belief or disbelief. The Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, notes further that a proportionate number of men and women students attend Sunday services at Memorial Church. The rabbi and ministers in the community also report that, of the students who come to them with problems, the number of girls is proportional to the colleges' enrollments...