Word: answers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem with a parable: "It is like the two fellows in the hot air balloon who get lost in a cloud and, emerging, call down to a man on the ground, 'Where are we?' The fellow calls back, 'In a hot air balloon.' The answer, like a lot of regulations, is absolutely accurate but totally useless...
Part of the answer may be that the institutions will have to be more sensible and imaginative in their attempts to comply. In their near panic to obey the regulations, some enterprises have been guilty of compliance overkill. A California firm spent $40,000 lowering all its drinking fountains when the installation of paper-cup dispensers, at a cost of $1.60 for each fountain, would probably have brought the building into compliance. The University of Texas put an elevator for wheelchairs into the student union-at a cost of $17,000-then discovered that the elevator was too small...
...television's intrusion into this striking moment of history? Did TV in fact serve history well in the episode? Or was TV, as the networks defensively insist, merely a neutral professional bouncing its images off a satellite with no intention-or effect-beyond good journalism? Oddly enough, the answer to all three questions is probably...
Jerusalem. Israelis have vivid memories of the 1948-67 Jordanian rule, when the city was divided. Jews were illegally denied access to the ancient Temple's Western Wall and the Jewish quarter of the Old City was looted and damaged. Muslims answer that the Old City is, and traditionally has been, mainly Arab in population and that they should have it back...
...former president receives thousands of letters each month from people throughout the country. A crew of volunteer San Clemente women come to the Nixon compound to keep track of all the correspondence, and occasionally, Nixon will answer a letter personally, Price reports. "Most of the letters Nixon receives are supportive, which may seem surprising," Price says. "There are still a lot of people around the country that like him," he explains...