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That Moynihan's memo should have been misrepresented in the overheated political climate of the time is explicable if still reprehensible. But there is surely no reason to go on doing so today when the only purpose served is the wanton undermining of a brilliant public servant...
...TIME, April 14). The Washington, D.C., firm's collection of 8,000 documents goes for $1,575. It includes such minutiae as then Ambassador to France Charles Bohlen's 1964 memorandum to Lyndon Johnson on Charles de Gaulle's tactics of "mystification and concealment" and a memo from a planning session of June 26, 1950-the day after the start of the Korean War-when Harry Truman sat down with his top foreign policy advisers. "General Vandenberg reported that the first [North Korean] plane had been shot down," the memo begins. "The President remarked that he hoped...
...June 3, show that Harvard has been extremely concerned about the possibility of a union in the Medical Area for a long time, and is prepared to go to great lengths to head if off. When District 65's lawyer. Richard Levy, tried to introduce into evidence a 1972 memo from Ropes and Gray. Harvard's law firm, advising it to restructure its personnel office--incorporating the separate Medical Area personnel office into the University's office--his motion failed. Levy tried to show that it was fear of a union that prompted this particular move toward a more centralized...
...fact that the memo was ever written, the fact that Harvard made the changes, and the fact that the University is paying two lawyers to work on the case on a nearly full-time basis, might make one wonder why Harvard sees the whole thing as so important...
...V.P.S. explained to TIME'S Lawrence Malkin in London. "We got a long, rambling personal statement, which is commercial death for us." Ophuls' original intention had begun to change during filming, as he had warned might happen. He informed the producers of the change in a memo written the day before the first screening that he "was unable to crosscut, say, Auschwitz and Viet Nam . . . emotionally, I have found it wrong." Ophuls had produced a film about what he calls "the necessity of judgment, as opposed to the impossibility of judgment." It was after all the producers...