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Alas, the moral of both my dream and this national saga is that there are no bannisters in ivory towers. Cambridge academics have turned a cold stare on the flight of this sport, and thus in the vestibules of academe--where bannister-sliding should indeed have flourished--students trudge on from class to class. The more optimistic hoped at the beginning of the decade that in this university--where great minds had already solved the Konigsberg Bridge problem and Zeno's Paradox--scholars might by now have found a way to slide up bannisters. But no, with the steady evolution...
...circuiting the constitutional process and of avoiding the setting of a dangerous precedent," said one Nixon aide. Nixon proposed that he take his case once more to the people in a last-ditch television appeal, thought about it, then rejected his own idea. As so often in the Watergate saga, his perception was poor, almost disconnected from reality: he was not at all certain that the effect of the newest tape disclosure would be that fatal. He ordered his aides to draft a statement to accompany the release of the transcripts. He would take his chances with the result. Price...
...size of the ape man's brain and his intelligence. Unfortunately, the skull did not increase as fast as the brain, and the resulting pressure distorted man's view of himself as a part of nature. The squeezed-brain syndrome gave rise to man's Faustian saga in which cannibalism became the way to knowledge and power...
Other producers have put their millions into reviving the time-honored disaster-film-subcategory-pestilence. In addition to Phase IV, the saga of the marching ants, Paramount will present The Haephestus Plague, a double whammy in which another earthquake disgorges thousands of carbon-munching giant cockroaches from the bowels of the earth. "We are breeding and training real South American bugs," says Producer William Castle. Reminded, perhaps, of the "feelies" of Huxley's Brave New World-in which audiences were electronically tuned in to experience the physical impact of every love scene and head-bonking shown on the screen...
...ashes from the holocaust and Shootout in Los Angeles had barely cooled last week when law authorities declared that they finally had the answers to two of the most persistent questions about the Patty Hearst saga. They were convinced that the newspaper heiress had really been kidnaped by the Symbionese Liberation Army on Feb. 4 rather than taken part in an elaborate ruse to join old friends. But they were also persuaded that Patty had since joined the cause of the shattered S.L.A. and become a terrorist herself...