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Some of the metaphorical questions that used to get raised by the Enterprise's intergalactic encounters on the old TV show were at least a little more interesting than this stale intelligence-vs.-emotion debate. One suspects a sellout to the Me Generation's self-absorbed search for feelings. It's a wonder they didn't invite the great machine to join them for an Esalen weekend...
...next day in Buffalo, the promoters and hall operators worked with the Who management. There were 237 security men, ushers, ticket takers and general staff working at Memorial Auditorium that night. Roger Daltrey told the sellout crowd, "We lost a lot of family last night. This show's for them." The Who had to work hard to get through...
...early going, Harvard committed four uncharacteristic turnovers, perhaps a result of playing in front of the noisy sellout crowd in a tiny gym that shook after every hometown score...
...spark of history. Washington, as history-minded a city as any in the U.S., responded ardently. Shivering against the predawn chill off the Potomac, buffs began lining up outside the Kennedy Center at 4 a.m. for the 50 standing-room tickets that would go on sale six hours later. Sellout crowds packed the center's 2,300-seat opera house and 2,700-seat concert hall. Sprinkled among them, on one night or another, were such dignitaries as President Carter, Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and Henry Kissinger...
...anguished debates and bitter wrangling within the Nixon Administration that accompanied every military move in Indochina, the efforts to end the war and how they were thwarted by Hanoi's rigid refusal for nearly four years to accept a settlement that would amount to anything less than a sellout of Saigon, the rationale behind the mining of North Viet Nam's ports and the Christmas bombing of 1972, why he declared "peace is at hand" on the eve of Nixon's reelection, his attempts to build bridges to dissident students and professors, the acid exchanges with South...