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Having originally hoped to promulgate the new rule last week, the FCC at the last minute delayed it for perhaps another fortnight. And even when the regulation is issued, the networks will be given several years to appeal and adapt. But as one network vice president said last week, "Just talking about it could take dollars off our stock...
...victories in the Civil War, and in 1949 emerged-thanks to Mao -as the "conqueror" of East China. His tough, agile infantrymen chewed up dozens of Nationalist divisions. But for all his military success, Chen was afflicted with what the Chinese Communists call "liberalism"-a certain in ability to adapt to Mao's hard-boiled personal asceticism. Chen prefers Western suits to the stern, closed-collar pajamas affected by Mao, Chou and Liu, plays go (a Japanese game of strategy) like an expert-though one Japanese master found him "too hasty." In Shanghai some years ago, Chen...
...these times of change, the course must be altered more than once. Visser 't Hooft is a leader who knows how to adapt to all these new situations." With the meeting hopelessly dead locked, the central committee created a nominating committee to check out new candidates - including, if they wish, Patrick Rodger. Visser 't Hooft, who wants to retire, will stay on until his successor is found...
...vote of 1,189 to 657, the psychiatrists declared the Republican presidential candidate unfit for the office he seeks. Sample diagnoses: "His public utterances strongly suggest the megalomania of a paranoid personality" (Dr. Randolph Leigh Jr., Cincinnati); "a very mature person, mature enough to be a realist, and to adapt to the world as it is" (Dr. John P. McKenney, Imola, Calif.). Ginzburg could not help adding his own conclusions, along with a clutch of malevolent cartoons...
...slight Scottish burr for the present occasion; otherwise he hasn't changed a whit from what he was in Waiting for Godot and Picnic on the Battle-field, other recent Theatre Company productions. A born comic like Benedict is of little use in repertory theater if he cannot adapt to new roles...