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...Hook vs. Wills Your book reviewer R.Z. Sheppard tells us that Garry Wills [April 23] "refuses to accept the free market of ideas where one opinion is worth as much as another." If so, Wills clearly does not understand what a free market in ideas is. In no market, free or not, is one thing worth intrinsically as much as another, even if their prices are the same. In a free market of ideas, one opinion can be as freely expressed as another-but this has no bearing whatsoever on its worth...
...cable subscribers disconnect from the service every month; most are people who move and have to be wooed to cable all over again in their new homes. Also, someone moving into the house or apartment of a person who had cable service finds it a relatively simple matter to hook up the wires again and watch cable TV for free; only the most elementary knowledge of electronics is required. The National Cable Television Association estimates that, besides the 14.5 million paid-for sets, 1.5 million other sets are hooked to cable illegally, and their owners' nonpayments cost cable operators...
...Crimson took the lead for the first time in the ninth when Cairone, captain-designate of the Jay Hook Memorial Pitching Staff (Dartmouth hurlers gave up 13 walks in the game), walked Bobby Kelley with the bases loaded and two outs, making the score...
...every sense, Saturday morning will be a bruising affair as Radcliffe and Yale hook up in a heavyweight showdown that could be the most exciting race the Charles has seen in quite some time...
...stacked up neatly behind Himelman with Chip Raffi posting a 77, Carroll Lowenstein a 78, and Jim Dales a 79. The fifth score included in the fiveman team total of 393 was an 83, carded by both John Thompson and Sanjeev Mehra. Spence Fitzgibbons, who has developed a nasty hook lately, logged...