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...been an overemphasis on day-to-day activities, that more time should be spent on background stories. But where will they find the time? Confused by the politics in the cities, worn out by the fighting at the front, "we plod along," says Freelancer Merick, "and delude the American reader by not reporting enough on such things as the rural pacification and rebuilding programs in the villages. I don't think the American people are misinformed, but I think they are ill-informed." And it is the responsibility of the Saigon press corps, at least in part...
...Salaam's daily Standard launched a save-Hugo campaign, and by last week Hugo had become a national celebrity. Some of his notices were anything but raves. "The hippo, like a member of his family, the wild pig, is vermin of the first degree," one irate reader wrote. "The best treatment for Hugo is a bullet through the head." The majority, however, was siding with Hugo and making Tanzania's favorite hippo the hip thing. Last week Tanzanians were humming the "Hugo song." They shuffled, stamped and snorted to the "Hugo dance." One educator wrote a children...
...During my elementary school years, I was a poor reader. A poor reader was not a motivated reader. Motivation in 1947, as I remember, came in the form of a swat. I am very pleased to learn that the condition of the poor reader has been recognized as something more than improper motivation...
King James, who got to have his name on the end papers of the most widely read English Scripture, had the humility to seek the collaboration of 47 bishops and scholars in producing his eponymous Version. James T. Farrell collaborates with no one, least of all the reader; his version of the Creation was written in 20 consecutive hours. The anonymous contributing bishops who struggled with the Bible took a little more time...
Having followed Malcolm through Michigan, Harlem, prison and in and out of the Black Muslims, the reader understands immediately the sincerity of Malcolms change of heart at Mecca. "There was precedent in my life for this [change]," Malcolm himself said. "My whole life had been a chronology of changes...