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...with color TV led him into an epic battle with William Paley's CBS. RCA developed a "compatible" broadcast method that could send color and black-and-white signals on special color TVs, but CBS, with a superior picture, won the Federal Communications Commission's license to proceed commercially. Sarnoff ordered his engineers back to their labs. Three years later, they produced a high-quality compatible system. The FCC reversed itself, and CBS lost a big round...
Since the "election" in South Vietnam ended long ago, a visit by MacBride could not possibly upset the political balance in the South. After his visit there, MacBride could proceed to investigate treatment of American prisoners held in North Vietnam. Surely Nixon, who has bemoaned the fate of the prisoners for so long, would not prevent such an inspection trip...
...expansion of the play within a play device, Wayward Saints concerns a trouble-prone Commedia dell'arte troupe which tries to stop quarrelling long enough to earn passage money home. The players, who have blown their own opening curtain, introduce themselves and then proceed with their financial backer's nearly impossible assignment: an improvisation of "The History of Man." Their irreverent rendition of civilization, more 1066 and All That than Encyclopedia Britannica, bumps comically along, but the players keep breaking character to bicker with each other. In an explosion of petty grievances they disband, only to regroup for a second...
...Though they say that the "open-minded search for truth cannot proceed in as atmosphere of political intimidation," their characterization of placards, leaflets, and picketing as "brutish," "intolerable," and "unforgivable" itself constitutes intimidation of political protest. The statement they signed attempts both to censure the expression of free speech and to defend an outrageous example of irresponsible scholarship. Robert B. Leflar '72 Phllip N. Alexander '73 Ronald L. Tresper, tutor Harvey Nicholls '73 Donna J. Brorby '73 Kenneth R. Manning, tutor Harllsos A. Lessios '73 Kenneth H. Hass '72 Frank R. Beaton '72 Betsy L. Wolf '73 Marcin A. Duncan...
Olds acknowledges his difficulties. He is aware that most of his students are disillusioned with the System, and that he cannot proceed with the business of education until the question of May 4 is adequately resolved. On top of that, he must contend with a hostile state legislature, which has proposed drastic cuts in the state education budget...