Word: memo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scrooge Is Alive. That seemed innocuous enough, but the principal of one school interpreted the word "symbolic" to mean that he should ban any references whatsoever to Christmas. He sent teachers a memo forbidding not only carols and trees but gifts and Santa Claus as well. In protest, outraged fathers marched around Coleman's home at night carrying Santa balloons, and 50 children picketed an emergency meeting of the school board. They carried signs reading SCROOGE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN MARBLEHEAD and SANTA HAS DONE NO WRONG-DONT SUSPEND HIM FROM SCHOOL...
Less extreme pessimism is being expressed even by some minority voices within the Government. Treasury Economist Herman Liebling has warned in a confidential memo that prices could rise as much as 6% next year. His reasoning: labor productivity is likely to drop while wages keep rising, intensifying cost pressure on prices. J. Dewey Daane, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, expressed doubt that price increases will slow to a "tolerable" rate even by the end of 1970, despite the Board's tight squeeze on credit...
...last May. Among them: a detailed list of faculty salaries, plus strong evidence that Stanford values researchers far more than teachers. According to the filched papers, a political scientist admired by students for undergraduate teaching gets $6,500 less a year than professors known best for research. One memo from a department chairman ridiculed an able teacher for publishing little besides a revision of his doctoral dissertation and vetoed, despite inflation, his salary raise on the ground that he is not sufficiently "productive...
Wilson said last night that the purpose of the letter was to introduce the memo...
...memo was cireulated at a news conference yesterday afternoon by members of NAC. a coaliton of radical groups planning militant action-possibly an obstructive picket line-against the Instrumentation Labs...