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...watched this segment of the "CBS Evening News" with morbid fascination. But as the reality of the death that had occurred before my eyes set in. I began to feel sick and turned off the television. The image of the victim's face stayed in my head. He had been young, probably no more than 20. Now he was dead, his two decades of life gone with the pull of a trigger, his entire existence made meaningless save for the statisticians. I wondered how his parents, if they were still alive, would react. I cried. Then I got angry...
Back in the 1970s, Chrysler was moving in that new direction. It acquired 15% of Mitsubishi in 1971 and 15% of France's Peugeot in 1978. The ideal combination, says lacocca, would be a top Japanese producer at the low end, a high-tech European company for the luxury segment and an American company for the middle of the market. As lacocca sees it, "That would be Mitsubishi, Peugeot and Chrysler or maybe Nissan, Volkswagen and Chrysler...
Sigmund Freud stars in a segment that seems adapted for Masterpiece Theater. Brownshirted Nazis burst into the Vienna apartment of the founder of psychoanalysis, growling about "rich dirty Jews." They are cowed by Frau Freud's response: "We're middle-class clean Jews. That is why I ask you to wipe your feet." The master's cures are just as brisk and effective, the ideal length for docudrama. "You don't want to die," Freud assures a patient, "you want to get back into your mother." From the couch comes the reply, "You're sure...
...They [Defense Department officials] won't protect the public interest," Rickover said in a CBS "60 Minutes" segment that was replayed on a large screen before his speech. "They come from private industry and they're going back there," he added...
...camera was nothing new. His operations had been videotaped for doctors and nurses for nearly a decade. The cardiologist agreed to a request from KAET-TV in Tempe, Ariz., to do a televised operation as part of a month-long health series on the public station. The two-hour segment, picked up by some 100 public TV stations in 33 states, had "a twofold purpose," said KAET Spokeswoman Kathy Banfield: "To alleviate the fears of those who face this surgery" and "to encourage others to give up smoking and other bad habits so they won't wind...