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Maybe the best army recruiting ad since John Wayne's farewell to his troops in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. In explaining before a rapt press corps how the gulf war was won, the general embodied a nation's ideal of the perfect warrior: tough, professional, charismatic, compassionate. And gave a great lesson in military tactics in the process. Now if we could just figure out what...
...appeals and press conferences in which the hostage families and dear friends pounded on the nation's attention to force Americans to keep them in mind when many would have just as soon forgotten. The captives did not know that people they had never met wore a tiny yellow ribbon on their lapel every day for seven years, with the words FREE THE HOSTAGES...
...pictures on the screen of the two huge high-definition TV sets in a Tokyo hotel ballroom last week were crystal clear. The colors were vivid. The resolution was so fine that the image of the five executives cutting a ceremonial ribbon looked almost three dimensional. The occasion: the expansion of Japan's HDTV broadcasting to eight hours a day, up from the one-hour tests begun in 1989. With its sharpness of picture and CD-like crispness of sound, Japan's HDTV has all the outward appearances of another grand success about to wash over the world...
...irony in a country ! that stamps its coins with the words "In God We Trust." Later this year the Supreme Court will decide whether to hear an appeal from the city of Zion, Ill., which was ordered by a lower court to scrap the city seal, consisting of a ribbon with the words "God Reigns" and a shield containing a dove, sword, crown and Latin cross. The device was adopted in 1902. The city argues that the seal is mainly a historical artifact, recalling the founding of the city by the Christian Catholic Church...
...elderly, the sick, the crippled, the shut-ins, the feeble minded." But the audience grows. The disabled and the healthy alike sit at rapt attention as the venues of WLT expand in whatever direction advertising dictates. For example, the The Rise and Shine Show first becomes The Blue Ribbon Shoe Polish Show and then The North Star Tooth Powder Program...