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SPEAKING at Class Day here a year ago, Tom Wicker, associate editor of The New York Times, called the wealth gap between rich and poor a major cause of violence and social unrest in this country...
...Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and now President of the University of Oklahoma, was here in 1970. The speaker in 1971 was Jimmy Breslin (the nearest thing to Woody Allen but still an outspoken political figure), and last year it was New York Times columnist Tom Wicker...
...Allen accepts the invitation, he will be the first comedian to speak at a Harvard-Radcliffe Class Day. Other speakers in recent years have been columnists Tom Wicker and Jimmy Breslin and former N.Y. Rep. Allard K. Lowenstein...
With Administration critics like James Reston, Tom Wicker and Anthony Lewis in residence, the Op-Ed page of the New York Times is hardly regarded as congenial reading in the White House. Beginning in April, however, at least two editions a week will seem friendlier. That is when Nixon Speechwriter William Safire leaves the President's house to become a Times columnist. Safire, 43, was a successful public relations man before joining the Government four years ago. "People know I'm a Nixon man," he says. "I always have been. I guess that makes me a centrist...
...press too often devoted itself to a running story on polls and predictions. Since these differed merely on the magnitude of Nixon's forthcoming victory, the campaign coverage never worked up even a small measure of suspense. There was plenty of rancorous rhetoric. The New York Times's Tom Wicker lashed out bitterly at Nixon as a preacher of falsehoods whose pious pledges are "obscene"; just as relentlessly, Syndicated Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak belittled the "ludicrously inept" Democratic campaign...