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Lapham, 45, a cerebral ex-newspaperman from San Francisco, tried to retrain Harper's eye on important public issues, setting the tone with a crotchety column of his own. The magazine was proudly provocative, billing itself "the battlefield of the mind." Some readers found it overly contentious and occasionally stale. The cover story for the August-and final-issue, for example, is on television evangelism, a worthy topic but one long since worked over by other magazines. Still, Harper's is a voice that will be missed. As Lapham says, "Its closing chips a little away from...
...media, our military commanders both in NATO and in Korea have testified this year on the record before the Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel that they are noticing a definite inability of an increasing number of their people to retain their training. This means that you must retrain often, which has a huge impact on costs and readiness. We are losing the confidence of our allies. Talk to some West Germans off the record and ask them what they think of the U.S. ability to fight a war. It's very, very...
...food than do the citizens of any other major country. Instead of fighting this progress, C.R.L.A. might do better to stress another demand in its suit: that the university use some of its license and royalty income from development of farm machines to set up a fund to retrain farm workers displaced by the machines...
...girl's brain turned into a monster, swelling uncontrollably. Angry and desperate, the surgeon eventually closed her incision, certain that the patient would soon die. But for reasons as inexplicable as its rampage, the brain slowly recovered-damaged, but still eminently serviceable. Although she has had to retrain herself in many routines. Kathy Morris functions well and has retained her gift for singing...
Milnes' vocal judgment, at least, was excellent. Verrett acted with an effective blend of charm and elusiveness. For a few years she has been trying to retrain her lush mezzo voice to sing soprano roles. The strategy seems wrong; by now the registers of her voice are as separated as the drawers of a desk. Only near the end did her singing match her style...