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This decision was announced by President Pusey in his reply to a telegram sent to him on Sunday by the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, an organization of writers, scholars, artists, and scientists aimed at defending cultural freedom against totalitarianism. The telegram called for "a nation-wide university demonstration of sympathy for the students of Hungary...
...strongly worded telegram sent to Governor Averell Harriman, the Committee charged that tonight's television interview would be "a slick advertising stunt" arranged by the Republican National Committee...
...telegram (inviting college editors to Cornell) and personal invitation (to Nixon) certainly imply official sanction, and regardless of when the invitation was sent, Cornell, by letting the Republican National Committee sponsor on nation-wide TV a portion of what the University asserts is 'educational' is permitting an educational institution to become, as we have said, the dupe of one political party...
...interested buzzing in art centers far above and beyond the border. Critics greeted the show with salvos of praise that made it the biggest Mexican art event since the 1949 retrospective of another painter, Diego Rivera. Paris' Museum of Modern Art Director Jean Cassou fired off an urgent telegram, then flew to Mexico City to see for himself. One Californian sent in his $4,000 check for one painting, a leader of Ft. Worth's oiligarchy reserved another four paintings, and U.S. museums hurried to get in bids. Focus of all the excitement: Mexican Muralist and Painter Rufino...
...austere aspect commonly associated with Justices. A much-sought after-dinner speaker, he also plays duffer golf (low 100s), likes to read American history, Plato, dime novels. Said his happy wife this week: "On Friday afternoon my husband called me from the office and said there was a telegram from the Attorney General. It said something about 'Come down and have breakfast with me and then we'll see the President.' It was such a surprise that we even had to borrow a suitcase from a neighbor, so that we could get him off in time...