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...Czechoslovak crisis to report for the London Sunday Times on the country's postinvasion mood. This time, no longer an admirer of the late Soviet dictator, he returned with a chilling account of a resurgence of Stalinism. Wrote Hardy last week: "The old methods of administrative pressure, blanket censorship and even naked terror are on their way back...
Peering into the night skies, astronomers find their view obscured by the ever-present veil of the earth's atmosphere. Swirling air currents blur the images of stars and planets. Scattered light and auroras in the atmosphere blot out faint stars. The thick blanket of air soaks up ultraviolet light and other radiation given off by distant stars, thus depriving scientists of valuable clues about the nature of the universe around them. Last week U.S. astronomers dramatically thrust their telescopes through the atmospheric veil and began to see the sky in a new light...
...away") Lucinda Desha Robb, 6 days old, left the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., to take up temporary residence in the White House. There, dressed in a long white gown that once belonged to her mother, wearing white crocheted booties and wrapped in a white blanket knitted by her paternal grandmother, Lucinda formally met the press for the first time. Grandfather Lyndon Johnson summed up the family's feelings about its latest addition: "Wonderful," he beamed...
Since the spread of cable TV systems, the U.S. has been buried under a blanket of television. According to the Nielsen ratings service, approximately 95% of U.S. households have TV sets. But what of the remaining 5%? Some live in mountain areas like Appalachian Georgia, or the new ski-resort town of Vail, Colo., where cable TV has not yet penetrated. Some Americans cannot afford to buy a TV set, although more American homes have TV than have telephones or bathrooms, and, as the Kerner Commission reported, television is "the universal appliance in the ghetto." Thus, many...
Furthermore, it is important at this point to be blunt and honest about what we mean by "reason" and pragmatism. If your definition of them somehow extends a blanket approval to current status-quo foreign policy, to the "responsibility of power," and to anti-communist assumptions, then we are not talking about the same animal. For me, reason and rationality are useful intellectual tools for uncovering the truth and for thinking effectively. Reason has never been for me an end-all, be-all sort of thing: when rationality and pragmatism gain too iron a hold over my life, then...