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...TIME (CBS, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.), Lear makes the same mistake that the producers of the late Fay did. Instead of the humor inherent in the show's situation-a formerly married woman's adjustment to the single state-he has chosen to cram it with familiar sitcom gags...
...Brown decision, Kluger assumes, cannot be understood unless a reader is familiar with previous litigation. More than 100 cases are cited; in addition, the reader is given a cram course in constitutional law, with copious quotes from The Federalist. The Supreme Court passes in review, as well as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...call me "Archie Bunker" and cram the Bill of Rights down my throat, and in theory, at least, I'd probably agree with you. But I'm one American who was glad to have had Hoover-instigated FBI surveillance and harassment of such groups as the Black Panthers and the S.D.S...
...professions depend heavily on the prestige of his gakureki-literally, his academic background. One index of the increasing pressure on young Japanese to pile up an impressive gakureki is the phenomenal rise of after-hours or weekend schools known as juku. Their main purpose: to help students cram for tough competitive entrance exams required to get into the most select high schools and the best colleges...
...came home in 1971 with a headful of ideas about new electronic equipment for navigation. He brought his plans to Oxy Metal Industries International (O.M.I.I.), a division of Occidental Petroleum, which was looking for new applications for metal oxide semiconductors (MOS)-the tiny components that engineers use to cram extremely complex circuits onto silicon chips less than a quarter of an inch square. MOS had already proved their value in the U.S. space program for which they were developed. They also have certain qualities ideal for use at sea. For one thing, they can be easily sealed in plastic, thus...