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...years the punny words poured out of his typewriter, recounting the sexcapades of starlets, giving pufflicity where it was due, telling of splituations and apartaches, and tut-tutting nawdy titles from rot 'n' roll singers. Once, 1,000 newspapers carried his columns, and a nationwide radio audience leaned forward in its chair to catch his Sunday flashes for "Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea ..." Last week, with his syndication down to 100 papers and the radio program long since scratched, Walter Winchell, 71, announced his retirement. Still "shaken up" over the December suicide...
...Students for the DESTRUCTION of Society), for popularizing the neologism "ROT-C," with emphasis on the first syllable. I would like to add, for Professor Lipset and others of his ilk, that there really is no need for a 'student referendum" since 2-3% of the students seem to be calling the shots anyway...
...Would you believe Harvard has THREE--count them--THREE Military Departments? We have the Army (as you well know), the Navy, and the UNITED STATES AIR FORCE. Imagine that! "ROT-C" is somewhat difficult to generalize and simplify, just like everything else in life! On that score, see "To Live With Complexity" by Dean Franklin L. Ford, Harvard Today, Autumn 1968. But then, who really cares about facts or intellectual honesty. Lets get rid of the fascist-pig-warmongers, let George worry about National Security, and give attention to something serious, like parietals...
...Division of World Missions and Evangelism. Echoing the dissatisfaction of other ecclesiastics from Asia, Africa and Latin America, Potter said in Tulsa last week: "Both the capitalist countries and the Socialist countries have serious weakness. Under our freedom in the West, the minority has the freedom to rot. We in the Third World don't want to be faced with either/or. We want to find our own way." Within the council it is generally felt that a cleric from a developing country-such as Potter or Indian-born Central Committee Chairman...
...kind of rhythm, the producer-writer-narrator never lets his visiting experts stay on camera too long. Instead, Secondari uses the visual part of his program to show what the architects' voices are talking about. There after, he juxtaposes imaginative plans for cities of the future with the rot now growing at the cities' hearts. The combination is disturbing, although Secondari has done his best to make it hopeful as well as ominous...