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...disappointment, anxiety and failure. From an inability to make a freshman team to a low grade on a thesis, a failure to pass oral exams, or a denial of tenure, we allow subjective evaluations by others to constitute not only a system of values for us, but also to assign our place in this system. Perhaps it is our occasional failure to respect and value ourselves enough which contributes to our moments of insensitivity and injury to others...
SECURITY. To Americans, the precautions surrounding the Olympics appear more than adequate. The police departments in Los Angeles and surrounding communities plan to assign 16,000 officers to watch the athletes and spectators; in addition, 8,000 unarmed college students will be deputized to stand guard and summon the real police to any trouble spot. The FBI during the Olympics will increase its force of agents in the Los Angeles area from the usual 400 to 700. To the $100 million that the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee proposes to spend on security, Congress has authorized the Defense Department...
Even though SelectaVision is dead, videodisc technology will probably continue to grow. Such firms as Pioneer and Magnavox, which sell disc machines that use a more advanced system based on lasers, are expected to continue making machines. These devices, which assign a number to each image, allow the user to call up an individual frame almost instantly. Priced at about $700, the laser players are often used in education and industry. Several firms are developing ways to use video discs as data-storage devices for computers...
...dealt with," admits Kleinfelder, who will assign junior defender Jenny Greeley to the task...
...insensible to the central lesson of Watergate, that a seemingly trivial act can take on such Aeschylean significance as to threaten the balance of the world. But it would be wrong to assign all the blame for that state of affairs to Nixon. There were abuses, and actions that were worse than abuses, on all sides. One need not describe the damage, not the least of which is that the U.S. now has a precedent for the removal of an elected President from office through a process of denunciation rather than due process...