Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: Your article "Nationalization in Zambia" [Aug. 22] brings out very clearly some of the dilemmas facing investors in that country in the light of President Kaunda's recent move in asking the owners of Zambian copper mines to negotiate the sale of 51% of their shares to the state...
...Sir: I have followed the William Buckley-Gore Vidal fight [Sept. 12] for over a year. There is a solution! If Raquel Welch and Rex Reed resign their roles as Myra and Myron Breckinridge, 20th Century-Fox could then hire Buckley and Vidal to take their roles. It would be up to the moviegoer to decide which of the two was playing Myra and which was playing Myron. MICHAEL L. WAYNE Los Angeles...
...Sir: Our contact with the blind community indicates that many blind persons are unaware of the fact that the Science and Medicine sections of TIME are available to them on tape from Science for the Blind. This is true in spite of the fact that we have tried to notify the community through notices in Braille periodicals and by direct mail to our own mailing list. The blind people who receive the tapes have been enthusiastic...
...Sir: The Human Relations Institute meetings [Sept. 19] were the most devastating and divisive experience to which black and white teachers could be subjected. Touching, embracing or castigating persons with whom one has scarcely a passing acquaintance does not improve human relations or increase tolerance and understanding. In fact, educated, well-mannered, tolerant, sensitive teachers were repelled by such actions. Color or nationality had nothing to do with the distaste expressed by the majority of teachers and administrators attending...
...Sir: I not only deny that I have denounced the Panthers' Los Angeles Freedom School [Sept. 12] as "brainwashing children to hate the white man"; I declare that if the Freedom Schools constitute that organization's major program, the Panthers should be receiving national awards instead of national harassment...