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mittee on Education Policy admitted that Colonel Pell had submitted a long memo warning the CEP that the elimination of ROTC at Harvard would be "a national disaster of real proportions." But the CEP's secretary, Edward T. Wilcox, denied that the CEP position on ROTC was in any way influenced by Pell's memo. Wilcox said he drafted the CEP resolution and that he "didn't even read" Pell's statement...
...proposal stimulated by a small foundation in Washington to establish a major university in Washington, D.C. Etzioni asked for advice on behalf of the foundation as to the best procedures for establishing a major center of scholarship in the nation's capital. Hence, it should be noted that my memo was a response to a proposal of others to set up such a university, not a proposal or suggestion which I was making, as the CRIMSON indicated...
Wolfe's personal breakthrough came a year later ("I don't mean for this to sound like 'I had a vision,'" he has written) when an Esquire editor removed the "Dear Byron" form a 49-page, free-flowing memo on custom cars that Wolfe had submitted. The memo, minus salutation but otherwise unedited, ran as "There Goes [Varoom! Varoom] That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby." Tom Wolfe had begun to deal with all that was extravagant and overpowering and vulgar in America on its own terms...
...last sentence of Pusey's memo to department chairman, viewed by some Faculty members as ambiguous, reads, "The Corporation expects that care will be exercised to avoid any implication that a request for deferment is an official act of the University...
Kennedy defended the memo as routine for such a tour and said that the three Republicans, Murphy, Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma and William Saxbe of Ohio, had been sent copies. But the three said they had not received them before they left on the trip. Although committee staffs habitually do spadework prior to such tours, the Kennedy staff went further into detail than most and was blunter than it might have been in laying down conclusions and stage directions before the trip even began. Senator Ted Stevens and Representative Howard W. Pollock, Alaska Republicans, stuck with the tour and somewhat...