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Anyone who has ever taken a lower level Gen Ed or departmental course in Social Science can attest to the first two points through personal experience. Any student who has gotten back a paper without a single comment save a "B" at the end can guess at the validity of the third point...
...occasions, a person who was voted a degree but died before it was conferred was indirectly honored at Commencement when the President of the University announced that he would have gotten a degree had he been alive to accept...
Potentially strong liberal forces have not gotten together in any meaningful way yet, they desperately need good leadership. McCarthy forces made impressive liberal gains in suburban St. Louis this spring, but have failed to align themselves with the progressive black community leaders in the inner city. Instead they are associated with the old Negro bosses who are on the way out. In Kansas City McCarthyites dumped the last remnants of the Pendergast machine with whom Harry S. Truman got his start a half-century ago. But the McCarthyites have failed to unite with the Kennedy forces and the black community...
Applying Principles. Wordy, brash, grandiose, Cosell has a natural gift for annoying, but at least his approach is in finitely more lively than the usual golly-gee-you're-terrific sport interview on TV. Explains Cosell: "I'm an electronic first. I've gotten where I've gotten in the world of sport just by applying the prin ciples of journalism." He does get his share of scoops; he was the first, for ex ample, to report Wilt Chamberlain's move from the Philadelphia 76ers to the Los Angeles Lakers. But it is more...
...medium. So I did a review of a Nancy Sinatra television special and I said no matter how much of her father's money she spends on herself she still looks like a pizza waitress. Well, Nancy Sinatra has a lot of friends out here. I've gotten some nasty phone calls and a few letters...