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...strongly support--has unfortunately had limited success in winning restraint. President Ford's abandonment of the term 'detente' clearly shows a recognition that the more extreme claims made for changes in the superpowers' relationship were quite unrealistic. Stability is disturbed and tension increased if the Soviet Union makes geo-political gains through its support of wars of national liberation, by the use of surrogates...
...become--maybe it's always been-boring. The "Talk of the Town" section with its plural-voiced inanities, the epic profiles of dull people, the humor pieces heavier with syrup than satire--this is what fills The New Yorker. Get rid of the cartoons--the work of Lorenz, Geo. Price, Charles Addams--and there is not much left. An occasional piece by Woody Allen. Richard Goodwin's political writing. Pauline Kael. What else...
...mathematical illiterates who would be lost without their machines. John Kounjain, mathematics director for the Watertown, Mass., public schools, calls the use of calculators "kind of ridiculous. You can't give the students a $19 calculator and then forget about teaching them the four basic functions." William Geo, a Denver math supervisor, says he gets an adverse reaction from some older teachers "who think that kids should be 100% independent." Others are concerned that students who can afford electronic brains will have an unfair advantage over those who cannot, although most school systems have moved quickly to prohibit their...
James Thiry, manager of staff and union relations for the university, said yesterday, "We are at this point waiting for the GEO to request that bargaining begin...
...state harbors some of the nation's fastest-growing computer companies?Honeywell Inc., Control Data Corp., Univac?along with a diversity of such other corporations as 3M Co., General Mills Inc., Geo. A. Hormel & Co., Pillsbury Co., and Investors Diversified Services Inc., one of the world's largest mutual fund conglomerates. The University of Minnesota, whose alumni and faculty have included seven Nobel laureates, ranks among the nation's best. It helped to develop the Salk vaccine, open-heart surgery, blight-resistant wheat. The Mayo Clinic remains America's secular Lourdes. Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater displays some of the most...