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...Western Europe, already basking in a summer of détente, the treaty will be a boon. "It wrenches Europe out of the political and economic doldrums that have afflicted East-West relations since the start of the cold war," writes TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers, "and opens a vast horizon of economic and diplomatic movement." Most important, perhaps, is the boost it gives to Britain's chances of joining the Common Market. With West Germany's strength increasing so dramatically, France is likely to reverse the De Gaulle position and support Britain's entry...
Escape from the Ratings. The great boon of cartridges-or any pay-TV system-is that they should enable U.S. television to escape the pressures of ratings and start programming for small and discriminating audiences. Primetime series seen by 25 million viewers on the commercial networks are often canceled as losers. But an opera attracting 500,000 cartridge patrons at $2 per rental might well earn a profit. Most experts assume that consumers will prefer to rent cassettes rather than buy them...
...week, the Education Commission of the States supplied some preliminary answers by releasing the first results of an ambitious project called the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Designed to "fill a gap about what groups of Americans know and can do," the ongoing survey may well prove a substantial boon to the nation's primary-and secondary-school curriculum planners...
...foreign language scholars, Schoenhof's (1280 Mass Ave.) is the greatest boon. The store specializes in all foreign languages, from Welsh to Amharic, and it has almost everything you could want. If it doesn't have something...
What the great debate is all about is whether the U.S. supersonic transport, a sleek, needle-shaped bird programmed to fly above the weather at 21 times the speed of sound, will be a boon, as Pan American World Airways President Halaby predicts, or if, in the words of Ecology Buff Arthur Godfrey, it will be "a boom-doggie." To a growing number of critics, the latter seems likely...