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...given an unsettling emphasis to a certain kind of publicity skill. George Washington would have made a dull TV performer. As the first effective television President, Kennedy proved how important it was to be fast on his feet. This helped to set a demanding new standard that elevates flash over sub stance. The effect of television - which in one year can make an unknown face tiresomely overfamiliar - has been to disqualify able but uncharismatic men, and to make others (Humphrey and Muskie come to mind) glib parodies of their once more impressive selves...
...addition to all the obvious trouble spots, others could emerge as unexpectedly as Cyprus did last summer. Yet not all is doom for 1975. Many of the flash points of the Cold War are now relatively calm, such as Berlin and the heavily guarded border area in Central Europe separating East and West. The two Koreas, though still hostile, are experiencing a slight thaw in relations. More important-and encouraging: no military units of the great powers are warring against any country...
Although the pilot systems now in operation are made by several companies (among them: IBM, National Cash Register Co., Sperry Univac) and have varying capabilities, they all flash each purchase on a screen mounted at the check-out counter and produce a tape listing each item by product and price at the end of the sale. The computers keep track of which items are subject to sales taxes, to cents-off promotions, to Sunday sales bans and even to Food and Drug Administration health warnings...
That was an unquestioned dent in Sprague's power, but the flash point between him and Fitzpatrick came over questions about the new D.A.'s ethics. First, local papers reported that after his election and before taking office, Fitzpatrick had held a victory cocktail party. Many of the lawyers who might well have future clients in trouble with the D.A. paid $50 a head to attend the fund raiser. "These parties are given all the time," says Fitzpatrick, who does not deny that the money collected went to him. The state supreme court's disciplinary board...
Zarkov to adventures in the shadowy cave world of the witch-queen Azura, one of the most sinuous vamps of all time. Wielding sword and ray gun (not to mention skull and bones), Flash survives everything that Mongo's Ming the Merciless can throw at him: sacred droks, octosaks, shark men, iron men, hawk men, even Ming's insatiable daughter, Princess Aura. Forty years on, Dale still sounds like an escapee from a Campbell's Soup ad. Flash still does not get around to marrying her. Author-Illustrator Alex Raymond still seems to be some sort...