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...SILENCE is criminal. We must teach these facts and teach them right, so that knowledge may lead to purity and righteousness. But with the new awakening and discussion of sex matters, the pendulum has swung from silence to publicity that is almost nauseating." So said E. K. Mohr, superintendent of the purity department of the International Sunday School Association. The remarkable thing is that he said it in 1914. The pendulum continued to swing beyond anything Mr. Mohr or his purity department could have foreseen. What was then a pioneering stand for frankness has become virtually commonplace, and what...
Thus, the pendulum has swung. Apart from some first-rate television journalism, the networks have been thoroughly overtaken by Hollywood, which, ironically, nearly went bankrupt when TV started. Last week ABC and CBS together agreed to pay $92 million for 110 movies from 20th Century-Fox, Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Top (and record) payout was ABC's $5,000,-000 for two showings in 1971 of the Burton-Taylor film Cleopatra. 20th Century-Fox, after fretting over the most costly ($31 million) production in movie history, can now thank TV for putting Cleo into the black...
...leader may be just the man to head up a college. Fifteen years ago, when the New York Stock Exchange was searching for a new face to give some depth to its public image, it chose as president George Keith Funston, then head of Trinity College. Last week the pendulum swung the other way when Connecticut's Wesleyan University announced that its new president will be Edwin Deacon Etherington, 41, president of the American Stock Exchange...
...song urging, or enticing, the boys to sign up. When she begins her song there's a jaunty, frolicsome quality to her, something heart-to-heart about what she says. Between measures, it seemed, her voice got hard, her body began to cut sultry pendulum arcs and she was a whore with a nation for clients and patriotism as a negligee. Listening to her and realizing that her song, which had undoubtedly drawn men to death, would be bracketed in the show by laughter--indeed the song itself brought a few laughs--was an experience not in itself laughable...
Earlier models of this Gravity Gradient system used on four other satellites were successful at lower altitudes. But scientists questioned whether far out, where the earth's gravity is weak, the damping devices which kept the satellite from swinging like a pendulum in lower orbits would still be effective. G.E. experts, however, were convinced that their basic system was reliable...