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...words, but later regretted it. "We regarded it as an official report, and it is our policy not to tinker with the text of an official report," says Executive Editor Norman Isaacs. As complaints poured in from church groups and offended readers, Isaacs candidly apologized. "It was an error in news judgment," he adds. "It isn't likely to happen again...
...have quite the dazzle of Adaptation, it, too, is richly comic and McNally's best play to date. At an antiseptically bleak Army induction center, a potential draftee (James Coco) appears for his physical examination. He is fortyish, fat, balding, and obviously the victim of some computer error. Nonetheless, his examiner (Elaine Shore), a squat female sergeant of stony mien and rigid devotion to the Army manual, proceeds with the examination. In a sequence of mounting hilarity, the thoroughly discomfited Coco is forced to strip down. The apex of comic modesty is reached when Coco tries to avoid total...
...curious that Henry Kissinger, the futurist who demands that the U.S. look far ahead before deciding what to do tomorrow morning, should be so much at home in the 19th century. However, states and statesmen were more predictable during that period, and the margin for error was a little greater. He is not alone in arguing that the U.S. could benefit from reading?and understanding?history. "The pre-eminent task of American foreign policy," he has said, "ought to be to get some reputation for steadiness. Whether we are dangerous to our enemies one can argue, but we are murder...
Harrison roared up from the bench to confront the official scorer--a Harvard student. The coach--arguing the officials should recognize a "correctable error"--ordered the scorer to press his buzzer, stopping play. Penn had shot and missed and Harvard had the ball, but, when the scorer stuck to his five foul tabulation, the officials tagged Harrison with a technical foul. Osowski made the technical foul shot and then Bilsky dropped in a jumper...
...wrote Author Paul Gallico (Mrs. Arris Goes to Paris) from Monaco recently. Gallico was one of many readers who have been moved to correspond with TIME, for we make it a practice to answer every letter-whether it is written to praise or criticize, to point out an error or to offer information. The great volume of letters to the editor-55,000 last year-is handled by a staff of eight letter correspondents headed by Maria Luisa Cisneros...