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...sudden appearance of a Cessna 172 in the flight path of a Boeing 727 last week was the kind of disaster that commercial airline pilots dread, and all too many of them can describe near escapes in similar situations. Despite the statistical evidence that air travel is constantly becoming safer, America's airspace is getting more and more crowded. Last year there were 187,473 nonmilitary aircraft darkening the nation's skies, of which only 2,473, or 1.3%, were commercial airliners...
...Lenny was more of a crusader, I'm in a safer era for what I'm doing as well. Lenny was making a point for its own sake, and his humor was the vehicle for that. I am a humorist, and this exploration of words is my vehicle for arriving at my irony...
...network's hard-punching weekly magazine-format program, 60 Minutes. It stars a couple of full-fledged CBS News correspondents, Betsy Aaron, 39, and Christopher Glenn, 40, who comb the country in search of stories that might interest teenagers and preteens-just as Dan Rather, Morley Safer and Mike Wallace do for adults. With slightly less success-at least from the looks of last Saturday's first 30 Minutes, which included rather pedestrian film reports on acne treatment and the plight of a justifiably obscure rock band trying to bust onto the charts. Things may pick...
...deter others from committing crime, 2) to protect society from the criminal, 3) to rehabilitate the criminal, and 4) to give him his "just deserts." Today the first three are not persuasive. The prospect of jail does not seem to be a very forbidding deterrent. Society is obviously not safer but more dangerous these days, even though America's prisons and jails burst with a population of 500,000 inmates. Nearly all rehabilitation programs are well-meaning exercises in futility. That leaves reason No. 4, just deserts-punishment, social retribution, the community's retaliation against the criminal...
...missed fighting with Mike Wallace," says Harry Reasoner. "Safer and Rather are also top professionals, and I'm sure I'll learn to fight with them too." One of the original co-anchors of CBS's 60 Minutes, Reasoner is back now as the news show's fourth correspondent, following eight years at ABC. Wallace is ready for Harry's return: "I don't know why he's so anxious to fight with me again-in years v past he always lost. Besides, I ' no longer fight lightweights...