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...communications technology has changed things completely," says one Moscow father of teenagers. "Tapes can be played over and over, exchanged, copied." In the '50s American moral vigilantes sometimes claimed that rock 'n' roll was the creation of Communist subversives out to undermine U.S. youth; today Pravda could make the counterclaim a lot more persuasively. Says U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Z. Wick, a former talent agent: "I would hope that American pop culture would penetrate into other societies, acting as a pilot parachute for the rest of American values...
...VisiCorp is also engaged in a messy court battle with Software Arts of Wellesley, Mass., the company that actually wrote VisiCalc. Last September VisiCorp sued Software Arts for $60 million, charging that the creators had failed to keep the program up to date. Software Arts in February filed a counterclaim, arguing that it wanted all the rights to VisiCalc returned because VisiCorp had broken a marketing agreement...
Throughout the week, the Iraqis poured reinforcements through the captured Iranian border town of Qasr-e-Shirin into the crucial southern theater where Iran's major oil facilities are situated. In the welter of claim and counterclaim, for example, the Iraqi officers repeatedly said their forces were on the verge of capturing Khorramshahr. Tehran called that particular claim a "hallucination" and insisted instead that the Iraqis were being forced to withdraw, leaving behind 16 tanks and armored personnel carriers and abundant stocks of ammunition. The truth, as foreign observers were able to establish at the scene, appeared...
...noted that the town of Mashpee, Mass., has filed a counterclaim for $200 million as the cost of improvements. Who ever told the white man that a $100,000 house is an improvement over a do-it-yourself teepee? Is a six-lane paved highway with speeding autos an improvement over the dirt road between villages...
...Harvard Square Dance" number a transposed Harvard law school professor barks out legalistic calls to his dancing chorus to counterclaim left and counterman right, find a loophole, swing your silent partner, change a venue and make an allegation, waking the dancing drones of the cast for this one number. But the cast doesn't stay awake long, probably because they're tired of parading around a stage. Most of the songs serve as an excuse to bring out the full chorus, and few of the melodies sustain or deserve such a stampede...