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Stephen Bailey, professor of Education, who helped to draft the report of the Carnegie Commission for the Future of Public Broadcasting, and Henry Becton, general manager of WGBH-TV, offered different perspectives on how public television could best adapt to meet the needs of the public...
...Becton said local public television stations will have to find innovative methods of dealing with the introduction of cable television and video discs on a large scale, possibly by releasing discs before release of cable and regular programs...
...while the private scholars in turn teach courses at the universities. "Teaching a course forces me to go through the [scientific] literature and stay up to date," says A.G. Swan, who instructs grad students at N.C. State in addition to his duties as president of the research center for Becton, Dickinson & Co. People who work in the enclave like the quiet, hassle-free atmosphere. Says a chemist: "This is the southern part of heaven...
...happily, expounding on the virtues of his "Voluntary Sterilization Bonus Plan," oblivious to all. But nobody is willing to do that. Instead college students have this habit of trotting him out under the guise of free speech, to debate something that most of them--like the 600 protesters outside Becton Hall at Yale last week--know already; the non-relativity of racism. The only thing different from Princeton, Indiana or Nebraska was that the Yale hosts concocted even more of a sham...
...been executed in North Carolina since 1961 or in the U.S. since 1967. In his appeal for Fowler, Attorney Charles Becton of Chapel Hill will argue that the death sentence not only violates prevailing standards of justice but is also still being capriciously applied. Fowler could just as easily have been convicted of manslaughter or second-degree murder, neither of which now carries the death penalty. "If they kill me," says Fowler, "it'll be nothing more than premeditated murder...