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...makes $23 cartridges that fit Atari's console, and will soon make them for Intellivision. Acti-Vision's Laser Blast is a good fast-reflex game in which the player himself is the space invader. Its Tennis has a couple of good illusions?the ball bounces realistically on the court???but no effective simulation of hitting the ball, and no distinction between serves and ground strokes. Like too many cartridges for all three systems, Tennis is likely to be played twice and forgotten...
...President plainly savored the suspense. He began with what seemed a deliberately tantalizing roll call of the kinds of people being urged on him for the court???Senators, Congressmen, a woman. He delivered a short lecture on "judicial conservatism." Finally, to the general bewilderment, he recited the name of Lewis Powell, then that of William Rehnquist. After the months in which his Supreme Court nominations had been condemned as second-rate, Nixon relished repeating the words excellence and distinction...
...extraordinary relationship," says Ted Kennedy. "With Ethel and Bobby, everything just clicked all the way." In a forthcoming memorial volume, Bobby's sister Eunice Shriver writes: "I hear him on the beach, in his home, on his boat, on the front lawn playing football, at the tennis court???always with the same question: 'Where is Ethel?' He grew out slowly. He was a lonely, very sensitive and unfulfilled youngster. He met Ethel, and all the love and appreciation for which she seemed to have an infinite capacity came pouring down on him. How he blossomed...
...Girls. The Chief Magistrate of New York City, bald, big-hearted Joseph Eugene Corrigan, felt like the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. Upon one of his judicial doorsteps?the Women's Court??? stood 48 bedraggled young girls, eleven of them carrying their babies (illegitimate) wrapped in blankets. They had all come down from Bedford Reformatory, where indigent New York girls who begin their sexual lives too soon are sent as wayward minors. To Chief Magistrate Corrigan's intense embarrassment, the 48 girls and eleven babes had all been released and returned to the Women's Court...
...World Court???"Pending before the Senate is a proposal that this Government give its support to the Permanent Court of International Justice. . . . The Court is merely a convenient instrument of adjustment to which we could go, but to which we could not be brought. ... I, therefore, commend it to the favorable consideration of the Senate with the proposed reservations clearly indicating our refusal to adhere to the League of Nations...
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