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First, the impression given by both articles is that military policy is the issue with the Boston Study Group. This is not really true. The basic premise for their study is a foreign policy decision. As they say on the first page of their book, the force structure they envision supports defense of Western Europe, Japan and Israel only, and emphatically eliminates all other conventional capabilities. This is, in essence, a one-war strategy as opposed to the current one-and-a-half-war strategy. Such a reduction in contingencies (33 per cent) explains most...
...full-page ads across the country, Sears, Roebuck & Co. trumpeted a 5% reduction in its catalogue prices as a "voluntary" move "to help fight inflation." But the sudden-and suspect-volunteerism came after weeks of rising pressure from the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS) and a phone call to the company's Chicago headquarters from none other than Jimmy Carter. It was the President's first such jawboning-by-wire, and the highest official he could reach was the senior vice president for public affairs; the others were out to lunch, and Chairman Edward Telling...
Three years ago, Telesensory Systems Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., came out with its Speech Plus talking calculator, which sounds out the numbers and the functions that are punched in. Price: $395. Next year Telesensory hopes to produce a computer for the blind that will scan a printed page and turn it into speech...
...compatible with good, clear writing. The graceful, straightforward style of Thomas' speech struck the editor as just what he had in mind, and he offered Thomas the chance to write a monthly column for the journal. There were two conditions: the columns could run no longer than one page (about 1,200 words), and they had to be submitted in time to meet deadlines. If these strictures were met, the editor offered a bonus: Thomas' pieces would be printed, with no changes or revisions, exactly as he had written them. "That was irresistible," recalls the columnist...
Every time the narrative picks up steam, though, Halberstam blows the pipes with hyperbolic cliche. In the space of four pages about Henry Luce, for example, Halberstam calls him "large on the landscape," "brilliant," "incredible," "legendary," "shrewd," "muscular," "powerfully influential," and describes both Luce and Life magazine as "dazzling" within six lines of each other. Almost every one of Halberstam's media moguls are "geniuses," one way or another. Almost every reporter in the book is described as "brilliant" and "fiercely independent." Halberstam's villains, like CBS programmer James Aubrey, fairly drip bile off the page...