Word: sirs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sir / Congratulations on your selection of rising leaders and an excellent research job, with one exception. My colleague and ex-partner, Ivan Chermayeff, was credited with having "conceived the symbol and identity program for the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission," when in fact I was responsible for conceiving and designing the Bicentennial symbol and identity program during the time I was with Chermayeff and Geismar Associates...
...Sir / If, as St. Clair argued before the Supreme Court [July 22], the Watergate grand jury's mention of Nixon as an unindicted co-conspirator made him "an 85% President," we should be pleased, since that clearly indicates at least a 40% increase...
...Sir / Your article mistakenly describes Justice William J. Brennan Jr. as 74 years old and a Republican. He is neither. A lifelong Democrat, the Justice is presently 68 years old. Given the depth of understanding and wisdom so often displayed in the Justice's opinions, it is not surprising that TIME might have thought that the Justice had served on the court an additional six years. However, as his past law clerks can readily attest, the Justice s remarkable physical vigor belies even his 68 years. Few other men-regardless of their age-begin each...
...Sir / It is remarkable to note that when John Mitchell was acquitted. President Nixon spoke glowingly of the American jury system and expressed his profound belief in it; but when Ehrlichman was convicted by jury trial [July 22], Nixon called it a "blot on justice," according to Rabbi Baruch Korff...
...Sir / Judge Gesell's charge to the jury in the Ehrlichman case would put all 200 million of us in jail. We have all had evil thoughts against our neighbors...