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...week, this reporter rode the arduous afternoon social circuit, seeking the best in drink, cuisine, and social atmosphere. What follows is a moderately objective and unbiased set of recommendations, reconstructed as much--as possible from beer and guacamole stained notes...
More conventional video technology is already in wide use to carry instruction to students at separate geographical locations. At Harvard, the Medical School is connected by closed-circuit TV to our teaching hospitals, to the Science Center in Cambridge, to MIT and even to other, more distant institutions via satellite. Through these links, speeches and seminars at any of these institutions can be viewed by faculty and students in all the others. Elsewhere, universities have launched even more ambitious ventures. Stanford offers engineering courses by closed-circuit TV so that employees in high-tech companies throughout Silicon Valley can attend...
...mood of the nation is out of harmony with most of the countercultural forces that gave the U.S. a certain nihilistic energy in the '60s. The war and the counterculture could at certain moments seem part of the same rock 'n' roll, drawing their energy from one dark circuit. Grunts in Viet Nam sometimes carried their tape players into firefights. They would listen to the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs...
...giant screen flashes the words LIVE FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN: WRESTLEMANIA. The magic moment has arrived. And so, for the moment, has the bastard sport of pro wrestling. From glittery Manhattan (where some aficionados were offering $200 for a good seat) to good-ole-boy Kissimmee, in closed-circuit auditoriums in the U.S. and 26 foreign countries, wrestling fans of all collars are savoring the triumph of hype, hell raising and Hulk Hogan. They made America; let's buy all three...
Emotionally charged testimony by the refugees filled the City Council chambers, as nearly 350 spectators crowded the building and another 100 watched the three hour meeting through closed-circuit television in the foyer...