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Anyone with a mailing list, a mimeograph and the price of some postage stamps is in business. Newsletters breed with such leporine rapidity that any nose count is outdated as soon as begun; in any given month, two dozen newsletters may spring into being, and a dozen others die. In 1943, when the Whaley-Eaton American Letter reached its 25th birthday, the editors undertook a census of their imitators, got bored and stopped counting after the total passed...
Salmon are harder to breed than Donaldson's trout. Instead of spending all their lives in fresh water, where they can be fattened like hogs, ocean salmon come to fresh-water streams only to lay their eggs. When the fingerlings are three inches long, they take off for the sea, where they get most of their growth. They come home to deposit their eggs and sperm with unerring accuracy in the stream where they were hatched...
...Result: the cultured, well-heeled flatfoot. Robert Taylor's retooled Detectives (NBC) now wear button-down collars, glen plaid suits, and shoot professorially from the mouth. "A beatnik," said one Taylor gumshoe last week, "is a vagrant with intellectual pretensions.'' ABC's The New Breed celebrates Lt. Price Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and the new, soft-spoken young cops of the Los Angeles Police Department, college men and nearly all scientists, who speak scornfully of the old-style "fat cops who steal apples." Straightforwardly acted, it is an absorbing story of men rather than...
...educational problem is one not of quantity, but of quality. Tanganyika will become fully independent December 9 this year with less trained technical, managerial and governmental personnel for its size than any country on the continent, with the exception of the Portuguese colony. British educational system has produced a breed of half caste intellectuals and semi-sophisticates facile in the superficial expressions and manners of the Western life for which they have prepared. Their intellect worldliness separate them sharply from their homes and villages, but their education has not allowed really them to understand or share the bureaucratic and scientific...
...example of what Shen was talking about came from Mali's Borema Bocoum, who invoked "objectivity and realism" to demand that Red China be "restored to its proper place in the U.N.," then protested that any proposal for free elections in East Germany is "spurious" and "designed to breed confusion in people's minds." In a classic example of nonaligned non sequitur, Bocoum proclaimed: "The idea of self-determination is valid only for peoples who are fighting for their independence and sovereignty...