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...government may designate the Tasaday forest home-estimated to be twelve square miles-as a preserve that will be off limits to loggers, ranchers, miners and other invaders. But even well-intentioned visitors from the 20th century may undermine any future anthropological studies of the tribe; gifts of a bow and arrow, a metal bolo knife and sugar from Dafal and the investigating scientists are already moving the Tasaday out of the Stone...
Most other major public networks in the free world are guaranteed their funding and are therefore more independent of their governments than PBS so far has been. If its bureaucratized and politicized management continues to bow meekly to pressure, as it did last week, PBS might as well give up its bold new logo and perhaps adopt something like a plucked version of the old NBC peacock. That is, a chicken...
...left holding the champagne bottle when the ship began slipping down the ways too soon. "There were supposed to be three whistles," she said. "There were only two, and my goodness, the ship was going down into the water." Recovering quickly, the startled First Lady lunged toward the receding bow, smashed the bottle against it, and was splattered with champagne for her trouble. "She did it right," said the pleased Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. "Some sponsors miss...
This is a pity, for Sillitoe is a writer of considerable talent: an ingenious storyteller, a stylist and, best of all, a genuinely rebellious spirit. Now, with a bow to Defoe and Fielding, he offers a cheerful picaresque novel subtitled "the ordinary and not so ordinary adventures of a bastard and a proletarian . . . when the star of his destiny takes him to London and sundry places...
...operations. An executive of Lockheed spoke bluntly for many other firms. Just before learning that the British-made Rolls-Royce engines for Lockheed's L-1011 jetliner will be subjected to the 10% import tax he exploded: "The whole goddam nation is confused over the plan, and we bow to no one in our confusion...