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...Apt Are the SATs...
...President Kennedy's assassination, so that truth and show-biz demands are bound to get mixed up when two networks (ABC and CBS) morbidly return to the scene of the crime this fall and mimic its actuality, with docudramas on Lee Harvey Oswald. Because people are more apt to spot a poor job of makeup than a perversion of the facts, historians worry about television's lopsided history lessons. Last year's Truman at Potsdam made out that his primary motive in dropping the A-bomb on Japan was not to end the war. In Truman...
...Wamponoags point out, they could claim much more than they are legally demanding now. As Tureen says, "The politicians are screaming now, but I think they will find that the tribe has been generous. Or if not, they'll forget about it." Tureen's comment is an apt summary. After the issue is resolved, Gay Head will most likely slide back into anonymity. The Indians will be a little richer, the whites a little poorer, and perhaps justice--in some compromised sense--will have been done...
...judge has few outside diversions except an occasional golf game, tinkering with grandfather clocks, and a periodic chaw of Red Man chewing tobacco. His capacity for work is remarkable, and he keeps his docket unusually current. If an attorney fails to file papers on time, Johnson is apt to call him personally-collect...
...punk rock. More and more, the punkers find themselves being referred to as members of yet another New Wave. Sex Pistols Manager Malcolm McLaren regards that as highfalutin, calling the phrase "Establishment language, more descriptive of a new hairstyle than anything else." In truth, New Wave does seem an apt catch-all label for the energetic and varied kind of music that has emerged in recent months from some of the young American bands. The Ramones stick close to basic rock 'n' roll, but they get better all the time. Last week their latest single Sheena...