LETTERS

...PAULS.CHERRY New Deal, but his consistent inability to Philadelphia, Pa...

...PAUL WARNKE Washington, D.C...

...Macrory that I assumed that it was GSA’s intention not to proceed with such demolition until GSA had completed its discussions with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation...

...go right on to the MCAT, AMCAS, the Dental School tests, and other such fraudulent services, existing at the pleasure of the PrOfeSSiOnal ~ c h o o flo~r the aUXdklV andy ses and beautiful Gaussian curves...

...Second, ETS performs this service free of charge for the institution requesting it, so there was no “contract...

...MARY MEEHAN Washington, D.C...

...I sometimes went with Lennie on his ment to our General officers...

...Rodriguez’ assertion that ETS “convinced” admissions offices to “go along’ with the Law School Data Assembly Service (LSDAS), it was the Law School Admission Council, an association of 153 American law schools, that established the LSDAS because of the dramatic increase in the number of law school applicants and the consequent volume of admission data...

...In other words, he was mocking the whole concept of a command post...

...I added, however, that I would verify that assumption because I had had little personal contact with the project up to that time...

...Educational Testing Service Although time and space do not permit extensive discussion of the errors present in “Inside the Educational Testing Service” [Eric Rodriguez, March] , I want to cite a few by way of illustration...

...ROBERT R. RICE Washington, D.C...

...Rodriguez is also mistaken in his discussion of the validity study that ETS was to conduct for a Washington, D.C...

...2) America has so many nuclear bombs that it is hard to keep track of them...

...I left the following day on a business trip to Connecticut and Pennsylvania and did not return to Washington until Sunday evening, March 3, 1974...

...shortcomings...

...We hope that an informed public will make choices that result in solution of regional problems, but we are not so prescient as to say that the problem-solvers, all or some, will be “liberals,” nor is the Council’s constituency limited to any one political philosophy . The development of community organizations as instruments for social change has been an SRC priority for nearly a decade...

...Flying Fuhrerbunker” A few editorial changes in my article titled “The Flying Fuhrerbunker” (April, 1974) may have resulted in misconceptions by readers...

...university on two points...

...As for the larger issues raised by Turnbull, it is not that the energetic pursuit of research contracts, the widerranging diversification, even the questionable marketing techniques are so objectionable in themselves...

...The evidence suggests that this reconciliation is not easily effected...

...Julian Bond is a member of the Georgia legisla tu re...

...I can think of no weapons systems that could be characterized as “Toys for the Generals” with less accuracy than is the case here...

...Although he implies some antipathy between this activity and the College Board’s College Scholarship Service (CSS), in fact the CSS Council was a founding member of the Graduate and Professional Financial Aid Service...

...We make no apology for the fact that ETS has changed as education has changed, and that we have successfully undertaken activities in a number of new areas, although the article cites such developments in tones of opprobrium...

...Thousands of tactical nuclear weapons were deployed in Europe because of misguided national policies and not any military need...

...Your article on the Educational Testing Service prompts me to add a brief condemnation of another “servicey’: the American Medical College Admissions Service, or AMCAS...

...The context of the conversation from which that was taken was that candidates for public office should have basic information, impartial and objective, on the issues and policy alternatives which affect Southerners...

...The needless nonsense of having to send in transcripts (an expensive and delaying action) only to have AMCAS sit on them for weeks (despite their exhortations to the contrary) is an extreme burden to the already beleaguered applicant...

...In other Europe on military decisions and that these words, Douglas wanted to know the celebriweapons are a particular source of enjoy- ties...

...AMCAS says not to send in recommendations until notified by the individual medical school to do so...

...Macrory because it did not occur to me that GSA would proceed in any manner other than as I had stated to Mr...

...Such implication is entirely false...

...If a request threatens the institutions or programs favored by these three, it doesn’t get hnded...

...I would like to clarify by noting that: 1) Former Senator Eugene McCarthy made no reference to low tide in his remark about the use of submarines...

...Toys for the Generals” How this great hero of all of us who love the First Amendment could have been on the 667,000 T~~~ for the ~ e ~ ~[M~ay]~, ltak~e ’fro>m the Las Vegas-based Parvin implies, incorrectly, that my Foundation may be explained by this sentence: “Leonard Lyons, famous columnist, number of tactical nuclear weapons in talented couples I ever knew...

...This may be incongruous behavior for a non-profit institution such as ETS, but there is a more pragmatic issue than that of seemliness: namely, can ETS reconcile its own imperatives with its responsibilities to its founders, to the academic community, and to its captive clients, the students...

...Further, Mr...

...Of course, the applicant has no idea what “subjective analyses” should he call them to task for such itworthless...

...But the straw that breaks the camel’s back is what the applicant must do to apply to medical schools for the next year, should he not gain admission the first time, viz., he must go through the entire nonsense again of sending in transcripts and money (by the way, AMCAS is not free), even though there has been no change or addition to the applicant’s academic record...

...Macrory...

...I also supplied him with the telephone number of the GSA project management office so that he could call there directly in the event he wanted to be updated on the situation in the future and I was not then available...

...He asked what GSA’s intentions were with respect to demolition of such buildings...

...The fact is, too, that the Council over the past year has been the conduit for grants of a quarter of a million dollars to such organizations...

...Cancellation Notice nevPelre assueb sccarnicbeeld o tuor y souubrs cmriapgtaiozinn.e I na nfadc tf iwnde WILLIAM 0. DQUGLAS Washington, D.C...

...My exhortations to AMCAS brought only the standard bureaucratic verbiage...

...I want it to be very clearly understood that my actions with respect to this matter in no way constituted “deliberate lying or willful deception” as implied in your article...

...Turnbull has set the record straight on the date of the MCAT transfer...

...I then called a member of the GSA project management staff who confrmed my assumption, and thereafter called Mr...

...Don’t stop with ETS, the CEEB, and the LSAT...

...Presently several of our programs are built around such organizations and around the priorities they help define...

...Your readers might be interested in the fact that ETS is conducting the broadest continuing program of educational research in this country...

...I conduct myself with sincerity and integrity in both my professional and personal affairs, and am deeply offended by your publication of any statement or implication to the contrary...

...however, most medical schools want such recommendations immediately...

...At best, scarce monies are wasted in duplication, and in too frequent trips to New York-based monitors examining monthly basis programs as strange to them as grits to an Eskimo...

...This organization, hindered by the Byzantine regulations of viscous minds, has only confused and frustrated many hundreds of medical school applicants...

...We have, of course, read your recent article on the Council, and we think there is little need to engage in extended debate on your opinions...

...I did not advise anyone of my conversations with Mr...

...His reference to the “dissatisfaction” of the Association of American Medical Colleges and the transfer last year of the Medical School Admissions Test (MCAT) is also incorrect: ETS has not administered the MCAT since 1959...

...Letters The Southern Regional Council I have never been offered the position of Director of the Southern Regional Council [“Doing a Little for Others and a Lot for Ourselves,” James Fallows, April...

...George Esser and Harry Bowie are the directors of The Southern ReFional CounciL ‘Dictatorial Powers as a Last Resort’ I am the GSA attorney referred to on page 41 of your May issue in your article on the Federal Home Loan Bank Board project [,‘ ‘We Try to Use Dictatorial Powers Only as a Last Resort,”’ Walter Shapiro], in which article it was implied that 1 was part of a “policy of either deliberate lying or willful deception...

...First, ETS did not “bungle” by erasing the tapes: the tapes did not have the information on them when they were received at ETS...

...He knew all the celebrities, their these implications is the fact...

...We will continue to do so...

...While further and wider support is being built for the diverse approaches needed, the Council will continue, either through its own auspices or as an advocate for other organizations, its efforts to bring resources-from whatever source-to bear on the South’s problems...

...JULIAN BOND Atlanta, Ga...

...It is a story of how the New York based foundations use three black men-two based in New York and one here in Atlanta-as their surrogates in deciding who does and who doesn’t merit their support...

...At the same time, these three are free to duplicate-with heavy foundation supportany existing program that they are unable to exercise control of, and to eventually direct funds and approval exclusively toward their own creatures...

...So why not continue with a series on such testing services...

...Contrary to Mr...

...I regret my erroneous account on this point...

...On February 26, 1974, I received a call from Attorney Patrick Macrory, who advised me that he represented a client interested in preserving certain buildings on the Federal Home Loan Bank Board project site, and that he was considering seeking a court order temporarily restraining demolition of such buildings...

...As early as 1962, Kahn predicted that the Russians might soon be able to destroy 75-10% of our people with an all-out attack...

...scandals as well as their other lives...

...AMCAS, furthermore, provides the “service” of computing grade point averages already computed on most university transcripts, and that’s all that most applicants need, since they go to only one university or college as an undergraduate...

...GEORGE ESSER HARRY BOWIE Atlanta, Ga...

...The real story about foundation influence in the South has yet to be told...

...it is in the Manzano Mountains near Albuquerque...

...at worst, some awfully worthwhile programs go begging and face eventual starvation...

...We are writing simply to reiterate certain points which we thought had been made clear to you in our conversations...

...The Southern Regional Council has for 30 years relied on accurate, objective reporting and nonpartisan analysis of public issues as one of the essential ingredients of change in the South, on issues ranging from constitutional rights to hunger...

...I advised Mr...

...Eric Rodriguez replies: Mr...

...When I arrived at my office at GSA on the morning of Monday, March 4, 1974, I found a message to call Mr...

...Macrory and advised him of this verification...

...Neither of rounds...

...The South needs more resources for the whole range of organizations dealing with critical problems facing the region, particularly poor and minorities...

...Indeed, the past chairman of the CSS Council currently serves as chairman of the Graduate and Professional Financial Aid Council, which establishes policies for the service...

...Macrory and was informed for the first time that demolition of the buildings in which he was interested had been undertaken over the prior weekend...

...WILLIAM W. TURNBULL Princeton, N. J. William Turnbull k president of the Educat io na I Testing Service...

...You interpreted SRC’s program as aiming for election of a group of liberals...

...I can think of few areas in which it is as important to have basic research carefully pursued...

...The action was not a response to any demand from the military services...

...He just suggested “a tunnel from the White House to the shore of the Potomac, with a special sub waiting there in the mud...

...3) Herman Kahn is no optimist about results of an all-out nuclear attack on the United States...

...Macrory and advised him that I had had no prior knowledge that such a course of action was being considered, or that a decision to proceed with demolition had been made, and further, that I was very embarrassed by what had transpired in my absence in view of our prior conversations...

...Rodgriguez apparently perceives our research efforts as no more than a separate set of business contracts for ETS...

...Rodriguez’ unfamiliarity with ETS has led to an erroneous conclusion also in his discussion of the College Board, ETS, and the Graduate and Professional Financial Aid Service...

...I immediately called Mr...

...But I know of only one storehouse for them in New Mexico...