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...pianist, he spends his free time filling in at small jazz spots in his neighborhood. He will not become really good as an actor, he says, until he is 40. "All the best work onstage comes from men of 40 and up. That is when the heart begins to creep into the technique in England, and when actors in America learn not to indulge themselves." Meanwhile, audiences can look forward to the next eight years of apprenticeship...
...more pressing problem to Schlesinger is the efficient use of personnel. Since 1968 U.S. forces have been cut from 3.5 million men and women to 2.2 million (during the same period, Russian forces grew from 3.2 million to 3.4 million). But because of what the military calls "grade creep," the U.S. Army today has one four-star general for every 20,000 men, compared with one for every 145,000 men during the Korean War. The other branches have similarly exaggerated ratios of officers to men. Moreover, only about 15% of servicemen have combat jobs, a larger portion of personnel...
...confess I laughed at the 1968 Time parody which reported a rocky romance between Tricia Nixon and Barry Goldwater III: "Tricia recently began avoiding 'that boring creep' and letting it be known around Washington that she'd 'rather have skin cancer than one of his disgusting hickeys...
...Energy Crisis has arrived and that we must make sacrifices. People listen and, even more astonishing, obey. Liberals and conservatives, industrialists, ecologists, moralists, Malthusians--all have gone along with Nixon's plea for patriotic frugality. Lights are switched off with a fanatical passion, room temperatures drop, and motorists creep along the highways at 50 miles per hour, or even 45 or 40 among the more patriotic. Energy--that substance that Einstein told us is so abundant that a tiny bit of matter gets multiplied by the speed of light squared in producing it--is accepted as being scarce. Crisis...
...full effects of these alterations depend on the newspapers that get the copy. Without special receiving equipment, wire-service stories still creep in over Teletype machines at the maximum rate of 66 words a minute. Papers that have invested in new machines are a long leg up on competitors; high-speed printers can receive wire stories at 1,050 words a minute, a major advantage at deadline time...