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...state legislators are lawyers. Federal agencies, meantime, are generating an additional 35,000 or more new regulations every year. These developments have brought about a virtual revolution in American society: an all-pervasive invasion by courts, laws and administrative agencies into areas that had previously been ruled by custom, practice or plain old-fashioned private accommodation...
...opposite is in fact true. It is already leading the consumer society away from the mass-produced homogeneity of the assembly line. The chip will make it possible some day to have shoes and clothes made to order?the production commanded and directed by computer ?within minutes. The custom-made object, now restricted to the rich, will be within everyone's reach...
...arrival of the miracle chip has given a further boost to an already vital industry. Far from rendering the big computer obsolete, the miracle chip has opened the way for the design of custom-made supercomputers more powerful than any thing dreamed possible a few years ago. At the same time, the chips are radically lowering the cost of the minicomputers. These small computers, in turn, are being used for more and more of the routine functions that until recently had to be handled by main frames - at considerable cost to the user...
...strongly independent souls with a grenade in one hand and a wrench in the other, reality is more prosaic. After 30 years in a progressive democracy, one of whose founding precepts was sexual equality, the women of Israel are still clearly second-class citizens, severely restricted by law and custom. "The liberation of Israeli women is a myth," says Journalist Lesley Hazleton in her new book, Israeli Women. "They move in a male world of reality in the false guise of equals...
...Begelman affair, however, has prompted many stars and agents to make their own verbal indictments of practices in the $3.2 billion-a-year film industry. Said Hollywood Lawyer Ronald Litz: "The custom in Hollywood is that you get away with as much as you can until you're caught." Litz won a $225,000 settlement from Columbia for Robert Redford and Director Sydney Pollack, who contended they had been denied their fair share of the profit from The Way We Were...