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...progression from the intimately jostling horse-drawn carriage to the railroad car to the encapsulated lone automobile rider and then to the seat-belted airplane passenger who cannot converse with his seatmate because they are both wearing earphones for the recorded music; the progression from the parent reading aloud to the children, to the living theater with living audiences, to the darkened motion-picture house, to the home of private television sets, each twinkling in a different room for a different member of the family - these are the natural progressions of technology. Each of us will have his personal machine...
...From time to time Carter raised some worries: they still had too few top women, too few good names on the Treasury list. Carter pulled out his own log, a red notebook in which he had recorded all his telephone calls and interview notes. He read some of them aloud to Jordan...
...organized the files from a loose collection of papers and folders that for years lay forgotten at the bottom of somebody's drawer into an efficient orange file cabinet, one of the few pieces of furniture in the RUS room. The recording secretary takes impressive minutes, which are read aloud at the beginning of each biweekly meeting...
...Connery. Other favorites were The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Clansman and The High Commissioner. His main favorite was Ice Station Zebra, the story of a U.S.Soviet confrontation on the North Pole. He saw it at least 150 times. When his spirits were high, he sang aloud time and time again the lyrics of that jazz hit, Hey-Baba-Rebop. He drank only Poland mineral water bottled at the spring in Maine. It had to be in quarts?he refused to drink water from pint bottles. His Flying Dutchman-like wanderings from country to country cost...
...university where the president and deans have always tried to avoid demonstrations, it is difficult to conceive of such a situation. Yet this is precisely what happened last spring: President Bok and Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, released statements to be read aloud at a demonstration against a University professor, Dr. Bernard D. Davis '36, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology. First in a letter to a prestigious medical journal and later in comments to the press, Davis has asserted that academic standards in medical schools have fallen in recent years because of the rise in the number...