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...worry about whether the monolith would be sluggish in prac- tice," he said...
...have no capacity whatsoever to deal with nuclear war," said Reutershan of the Public Health Service, sounding offended by a chaos that beggared his means to cope. Indeed, for prac- tically everyone in the convention hall, nuclear war would be the ultimate professional frustration, not the ultimate challenge: With suffering and death so vast, whom to rescue and whom to mend? Where to erect the police barricades? Theirs is not so much a fascination with disaster as it is a half-religious, half-martial hankering to see what they can do to help. Nuclear holocaust would...
When he arrived in Cambridge, Makavejev was quite surprised to find that his films were not well-known. At Berkeley, his student audiences prac-films. Harvard has not single established method of with the inevitable frustrations of teaching after having grown accustomed to independent artistry. If he gets enough feedback from his film-making class, he says, his artistic desires will not be frustrated. But so far he hasn't found anybody who's "willing to die for the movies...
Just why Kissinger did allow it remains unclear. He himself has said that he regrets the whole episode, but that he was told that it was the usual prac tice followed in previous Administra tions. Some observers believe Kissinger was truly concerned about security and worried that leaks would damage delicate negotiations, though most agree that the disclosures in question concerned information that was a secret only to the American people, not to the Communists...
...release him because he was 21. Dan Voll, who was seized in New York, has filed an assault charge against Patrick; his lawyer, John LeMoult, argues that most deprogram ming raids involve assault and unlaw ful imprisonment. But since parents are involved, federal officials do not in prac tice deem the abductions kidnaping...