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...bureaucracy made it impossible to switch to a standby bachot. The decision to change, explained an official of the Marseille test center, could be made only by the exam results to be compared with a student's regular work. Those scoring suspiciously well will get an oral grilling. President Charles de Gaulle was so peeved by the inglorious mess that at a Cabinet meeting he asked his Education Minister: "Alors, Fouchet, and about this bac?" Replied Fouchet, with grumpy high-score logic: "The whole thing would never have happened if Marseille weren't in France...
...developing cancer? Doctors at last week's A.M.A. meeting had a double reason for supplying answers. Many of them have been prescribing the pills for years, and it was an A.M.A. publication that unintentionally started the latest cancer scare. The consensus was more than reassuring: women who take oral contraceptives do not incur any added risk of cancer, said the experts, and there are even glimmers of hopeful though preliminary evidence that the pills may actually be protective against some forms of the disease...
...naturally, "mythically" and communally. This is bad. What McLuhan likes are cool media. These are fuzzy, low in information, but richly demanding on the audience to fill in what is missing. The telephone, modern painting, but pre-eminently television are cool and good. Television and other "electric media" are oral-auditory, tactile, visceral, and involve the individual almost without volition. As a result McLuhan believes that the world is rapidly becoming a "global village," in which mankind communicates in a supermodern version of the way tribal societies were once related. In the coming overthrow of typographic and literate communications McLuhan...
...female population, with increasing numbers of women entering the childbearing ages, is favorable to a higher level of fertility." Unofficial guessers attributed the decline to World War II (girls born in the 1946 baby boom are only now approaching the commonest marrying age) and the introduction of oral contraceptives...
Ideas are the chief products at celebrated Bell Labs, where 4,575 scientists are engaged in what Kappel calls "the exploration of dreams." The dreams range from figuring out ways to stop squirrels from chewing up telephone wires to devising a typewriter that could work by oral dictation...