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...MEMO FROM DESILU PRODUCTIONS: Good morning, Mr. Getter. We like your script. In fact, we think its potential is greater than you realize. Your assignment, should you decide to accept it, Bruce, will be to boil down your feature-length thriller to a tight, pulsating 49 minutes, then come up with 27 more just like it. Same basic plot on which the fate of mankind hangs. Same fascinating attention to visual gimmickry. We think we've got a world-capable series here. As always, should you or any of your Impossible Mission Force be gunned down by the critics...
...Council has throughly discussed but not resolved a third matter that many SFAC members consider important--the October memorandum of Selective Service Director General Lewis B. Hershey Jr. Norman Diamond, a graduate representative, wanted to link the memo to the Vietnam War and oppressive nature of the Selective Service System. When he called for the banning of military recruitment on campus in light of those policies, the resolution was voted down...
...memo, Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger explained that "several study groups representing nearly every department had made projections" for the new paper. But the "answers were not encouraging." Sulzberger added that "major talent and time would be diverted from the Times to the new publication. I can tell you that this added a great deal to the unattractiveness of the whole proposal." He also was not eager to tangle with ten aggressive newspaper unions that had struck four times in the past five years and had helped kill five newspapers in that period. They are still resisting automation more relentlessly...
...Curia-prepared secret reports outlining the agenda topics vary considerably in imagination and scope. Least impressive is the one on seminaries-a two-page memo that offers no specific proposals for the improvement of priestly training. The document on canon law, however, recommends that reformation of the church's code he undertaken in a spirit of charity rather than conformity to regulation, and that the duties of ecclesiastical superiors as well as their subjects be spelled out, since "the rights of every member of the faithful must be recognized and safeguarded." The document on mixed marriages raises the possibility...
...Defense Memo...