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...create myriad new industries, and an international computer network could bring important agricultural and medical information to even the most remote villages. "What networks of railroads, highways and canals were in another age, networks of telecommunications, information and computerization ... are today," says Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. Says French Editor Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, who believes that the computer's teaching capability can conquer the Third World's illiteracy and even its tradition of high birth rates: "It is the source of new life that has been delivered...
Poets in Their Youth by Eileen Simpson. The first wife of the late John Berryman looks back at the years she spent among a brilliant and damaged generation of poets. The Last Kings of Thule by Jean Malaurie. An Arctic adventurer in the tradition of Peary, Cook and Rasmussen poignantly describes the lives of Greenland's Eskimo nomads as the 20th century encroaches on their Sahara of ice and snow...
...campers; the congregations of small country churches are dwindling; Trappist monks are admired for not putting preservatives in their bread; and a disabled truck driver passes the time needlepointing a Star Trek pillow cover while his wife lifts weights. A story that begins "Leroy Moffitt's wife, Norma Jean, is working on tier pectorals" is a story whose second line is guaranteed to be read...
...careers follow that trajectory of seeking the press, then avoiding it, or of still seeking attention after the press has lost interest. More fascinating are the public figures who lose out in press favor and then make it back: they show skill in damage limitation. Billie Jean King at first denied having an affair with a woman who sued her for palimony, then, against her attorney's advice, called a press conference to admit it. She ended up more praised for her honesty than condemned for her behavior. John Kennedy quickly took responsibility for the Bay of Pigs...
FRANCE. Despite skepticism inside the country and abroad, the Socialist government's decision to impose price and wage controls last June has been "a sort of success," in the view of Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor of economics at the University of Paris Nord. As a result, he was less pessimistic about the French economy than he was six months ago, now predicting a growth rate of about 1% for 1983 along with a continuing fall in inflation. The rate of price rise in the economy has already been slowed from 12% to 9.8% during 1982, and Chevalier expects further...