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Since I have announced that I intend to seek re-election in 1970, I fully expect that there will be, as there have been in the past, irresponsible efforts to distort the facts about my health. I hope that TIME and other responsible publications will not fall for this political trick...
...mayor: "If you were to ask me if I support the Chicago police department and the National Guard in their actions, the answer would be an unequivocable [sic] yes." Police Superintendent James Conlisk ventured a brief statement, saying that "to speak of 'a police riot is to distort the history of those days in August. The world knows who the rioters were." Commander Ronald Nash, who headed a force of 135 police during the convention week's most violent confrontation outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel, said of his men: "They were beautiful. They conducted themselves as professional policemen...
...south-west Cambridge, are located smack in the heart of what science-fiction writers used lovingly to term a "time warp." Four years of this town, of predictable variety and commonplace brilliance, can do that to a fellow. Places, and the people who choose to hold them, can distort perception; can modify and magnify, enrich and cheapen, help and hurt. Cambridge does things to events and phenomena, and it takes no poet's sensibility to realize the fact. But last night, one could feel more comfortable in the grip of the Brattle Square time warp, because six actors had performed...
...reference is not facile. Paul McCartney once said: With any kind of thing, my aim seems to be to distort it, distort it from what we know it as, even with music and visual things, and to change it from what it is to see what it could do. To see the potential in it all. To take a note and wreck it and see in that note what else there is in it, that a simple act like distorting has caused. It's all trying to create magic, it's all trying to make things happen so that...
Lewis designed the program this summer, working on the staff of Technological Aids to Creative Thought (TACT). He can only map the circle a dozen different ways at present, but he said that within a few months he expects to be able to distort the circle to any algebraic map that a person could write out in his own handwriting on the computer tablet...