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...what newspapers tend to call a "veteran observer"-and a fond one at that-the emphasis on jazzy design changes in all these post-mortem announcements has an air of desperation, like Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie: "I can be taller! I can be shorter!" Come now, get hold of yourself; be what you are. The reader has to appreciate more pages, more opinions, but he is not likely to be fooled by a newspaper whose looks have been tinkered with so as to ape a television screen. Besides, the color reception in most papers is uneven. Ever count the number...
These books at times go beyond a recapitulation of familiar information. Several articles even provide insightful treatments of the Kennedy years; and a chance exists that some of the scheduled television programs will offer more than fond, sentimental recollections. As much as anything else, though, the coverage of this 20th anniversary reminds one that America has yet to find a leader that captivates its imagination as much as Kennedy did, and still does. That's depressing, as are the attempts of certain books and television shows to glorify the Kennedy family and perpetuate that undefined Kennedy "dream," as if America...
...could reflect on a trip that seemed successful precisely because of its lack of high drama. Quiet cementing of relationships with allies lacks the theatricality and tension of crisis negotiations and the dispatching of troops and ships, but it is vitally important. U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Mike Mansfield is fond of asserting that since the U.S. and Japan together account for a third of all economic production in the non-Communist world, their friendship is the most important bilateral relationship on the globe. And if it, and the alliance with South Korea, are singularly untroubled - well, all the more reason...
...believes that if broadcasters were allowed to battle it out, free of regulation, the result would be "more innovation, more choice, better quality and lower prices." In his Utopia, the audience would regulate programming by switching channels. "Let the public's interest determine the public interest," Fowler is fond of declaring...
Thomas Bolger, the new chairman of Bell Atlantic, is fond of pointing out that the prices of other commonplace products like a Chevrolet have increased about 1,000% since 1940, while the average basic monthly U.S. telephone rate has gone up from $3.67 to just $11.38 during that period, or by 210%. A private line to a dwelling in Great Falls, Mont., costs about $8 "for access to the world," says U S West Chief Executive Jack MacAllister, while it costs $30 to install and maintain the connection. Even if that basic monthly bill doubles, to $16, it is "still...