Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: You are mistaken when you say that Peter T. Coleman, the newly appointed deputy high commissioner...
...Sir: Apropos your interesting story on the conflict-of-loyalty problem of military chaplains [May 30], may I point out that a year ago (May 18, 1968), the American Jewish Congress urged that military chaplains be replaced with civilian religious counselors receiving no pay from the Government and possessing no military rank. The resolution adopted by the organization's convention, the first national organization to do so, stated that "religion must always remain the guardian of the nation's conscience and the moral judge of its actions. It cannot fulfill that sacred responsibility...
...Sir: Re your report that I had announced I was leaving the Episcopal Church "partially because it is a 'dying institution' and partially because Bishop Myers refused to officiate" at my marriage [May 23]: as to the first, I had said that "the declining of the church as such has no bearing . . . on whether a sincere, thoughtful person should remain in it or not"; but that it was the reasons for the decline which persuaded me. As to the second, I had stated: "Bishop Myers . . . granted me a favorable judgment as to my marital status in the eyes...
...Sir: Cheers for Willie, who realizes how much he is giving up by having to spend his college years in a coeducational dormitory...
...Sir: Although the Apollo 10 crew has been criticized for profane language [May 30], the fact is that Eugene Cernan merely called the attention of the universe to his ill-behaving craft. What better thought could he have had than to remind "Snoopy" of his dog-mother in order to straighten out his puppylike behavior...