LETTERS
LETTERS Race mixing and sports In "Tilting at Windmills" [September] you described how race relations are not automatically improved through the integration of schools but rather through the...
...The ultimate responsibility for seeing to it that MacArthur clear the use of American units rested with Truman...
...policy...
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...MacArthur was merely carrying out presidential as well as U.N...
...There's less to Mr...
...So we practice in the halls of our high school during the winter...
...RICHARD McCORMICK Miami, Florida Matthew Cooper finds much to commend in the Knight-Ridder chain...
...McCormick caught a goof...
...This communication did not give MacArthur authority to cross the 38th parallel...
...was merely a U.S...
...Verplanck's criticism...
...When discussing Ms...
...If you print this, I promise to send a copy to my high school Latin teacher...
...HANNAH KLEIN Wheaton, Maryland The editor replies: Mea culpa...
...The tests seem remarkably well-suited to ensuring that Knight-Ridder will have a staff whose values are consonant with high journalistic standards, and distinctly unfriendly to the bottom-line values of the staffs of other newspaper chains...
...I realize that it is a common misconception that MacArthur invaded North Korea on his own initiative, but this isn't what actually happened...
...It is in the locker rooms, chatting during meets and practices, and perhaps most of all in the joking around, that different kinds of kids really get to know each other...
...However, I believe Mr...
...During the meets in the armory hundreds of cots are piled to one side, the air reeks of urine, and scary-looking men and women lurk around the facility...
...Weiss perhaps mean "caveat vendor" ("Let the seller beware...
...However, because of the combat differences of the South Korean units, MacArthur used American units near the Chinese border, and when the JCS questioned this, MacArthur asserted that Marshall's message that he "feel unhampered" gave him the authority...
...Since the presence of American soldiers near the Chinese border was provocative to the Chinese, the directive from the JCS stipulated he was to use South Korean and not American troops near the border...
...The Public School Athletic League is now allowed to use it one afternoon a week...
...My point is that Marshall knew MacArthur's offensive was extremely risky, yet he failed to stop him...
...Does Mr...
...rubber stamp, since the USSR was boycotting the Security Council...
...Having to take the kids up to this hole for our meets makes me furious and ashamed...
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...In my classes, which are capped at 34 students, I am continually amazed at how few of the students even know each others' names at the end of the courses...
...Well before the company instituted its extensive psychological testing program, Knight had transformed mediocre papers, like the Herald, into great ones...
...The sad part is that extra-curricular activities, like the entire educational system in New York City, are treated like dirt...
...Dole's flip-flop on consumer issues, he refers to her as "...the woman who...
...Thomas calls MacArthur's movement into North Korea a "mad dash" However, in point of fact, President Truman had decided to reunify all of Korea, and a United Nations resolution called for the reunification of Korea...
...had warned that the slogan `caveat emptor' was about to be replaced by 'vendor emptor.' .." This translates into "...the slogan let the buyer beware' was about to be replaced by 'the seller is the buyer.' .." How's that again...
...Parental involvement is also nil...
...Had Marshall warned President Truman—who was in awe of the old general—the defense secretary could have easily stopped MacArthur's "mad dash" (The U.N...
...MacArthur's mad dash In his review of Forrest C. Pogue's George Marshall...
...Weiss needs to brush up on his Latin...
...Last year the only public school indoor running facility, the 168th Street Armory, was converted into a shelter for the homeless...
...Excusium usum Philip Weiss's expose ["Charming Her Way to the White House," September] afforded me a new perspective on Elizabeth Dole...
...But he finds absurd the battery of psychological tests used in hiring staff...
...Of course the city needs shelters for the homeless, but taking from the poor to give to the poorer is a hell of a solution...
...By printing more news during World War II, Knight's Miami Herald wooed readers from the Miami News, not the Miami Tribune as I said...
...Sports teams get so little money that most of what we spend on uniforms, equipment, and traveling we have to raise ourselves...
...LETTERS Race mixing and sports In "Tilting at Windmills" [September] you described how race relations are not automatically improved through the integration of schools but rather through the closer contacts that are made in teams, clubs, and other small groups...
...MATTHEW PEARSON Summit, New Jersey Foes blast goofs I found it very interesting that the reason the Miami Herald succeeded and the Miami Tribune failed was due to superior management of wartime newsprint allocations ["Hot Chain Nixes Wingo, BuscapadesNabs Pulitzers, Big Bucks," Matthew Cooper, September...
...JOSEPH FORBES Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Evan Thomas replies: Yes, MacArthur did have Truman's, Marshall's, and the U.N.'s authorization to invade North Korea...
...But Truman did not insist Marshall inform MacArthur that he was not to use American troops near the border when Marshall failed to inform him on his own...
...As a social studies teacher and a cross-country and track coach at the High School for the Humanities, the only racially integrated public high school in Manhattan that comes anywhere near reflecting the actual racial make-up of Manhattan, I can assure you that this observation is entirely accurate...
...Statesman 1945-1959 ["Marshall Arts," July/August], Evan Thomas blames Marshall, then secretary of defense, for permitting MacArthur to cross the 38th parallel in Korea and attempt to reunify all of Korea...
...This was quite a feat considering the fact the Tribune was bought out by John S. Knight and the plant padlocked in 1937, some four years prior to World War II...
...Thomas misunderstood the circumstances and significance of Marshall's message to MacArthur to "feel unhampered tactically and strategically...
...Few of the editors and reporters I spoke with identified the tests as a main reason for Knight-Ridder's quality...
...It does not seem to occur to him that the quality of the chain's papers may be due to the success of these THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY/NOVEMBER 1987 tests—and the associated "touchy-feely" training program...
...VERPLANCK Knoxville, Tennessee Matthew Cooper replies: Mr...
...What would Cicero say...
...That authority had been granted MacArthur in a Joint Chiefs of Staff directive that was issued to agents of the president in the implementation of presidential policy...
...W.S...
Vol. 19 • November 1987 • No. 10
