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Tuchman is no newcomer to popular history. Her previous works have encompassed subjects from the Zimmerman telegram of World War I to the life of the French nobility in the middle ages, and her anecdotal style has captured the interest of enough of the general public to win her places on the New York Times bestseller list...
FOLLOWING IS A COPY OF TELEGRAM SENT TO PRESIDENT PUSEY. DEAR PRESIDENT PUSEY AS YOU MAY RECOLLECT I'M UP FOR ELECTION ON THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS. AND WOULD LIKE TO WIN, AND AM SUFFICIENTLY A POLITICIAN TO RECOGNIZE THAT CASTIGATING YOUR ACTION IN CALLING THE POLICE WILL NOT NECESSARILY GAIN ME ALL THE VOTES OF OLD ALUMNI, NONE-THE-LESS, I RUSH HAPPILY TO SAY THAT YOU ARE CONCEIVABLY A LIAR IN PRETENDING HASTE AND NIGHTSTICKS WERE NECESSARY TO SOLVE AN EXPLOSIVE SITUATION FOR WHICH RECENT HISTORY MIGHT HAVE PREPARED YOU WITH MANY AN ALTERNATIVE. SINCE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL...
...sources to develop new ways of thinking about social issues. The academic quarrels, personal affronts, progress of the Ladd-Lipset survey and illustrations of biased press coverage make The File an exciting, perhaps unique method of examining an issue. Ladd, the campaign's target, even sent along a congratulatory telegram praising the book as "a major literary achievement...
...trip has already meant work for the East Cambridge resident. In keeping with his commitment to mutual aid between the sibling cities. Vellucci this week sent a telegram from Coimbra to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) asking for relief for the town, which has been ravaged by recent floods...
...fighting by no means ended the conflict be tween the Federal Government and the U.S. press over the mili tary's refusal to let reporters cover the invasion. Complained the American Society of Newspaper Editors, in a telegram to Defense Secretary Weinberger: "We object to the Defense Department's failure to honor the long tradition of on-the-scene coverage of American military operations...