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...theory, a family equipped with EVR will become a self-contained educational center: Junior will study the sex life of grasshoppers (the subject Goldmark drolly demonstrated last week), Father will settle back for an evening of golf lessons or an audio-visual version of LIFE and Mother will sharpen her French through an EVR correspondence course. CBS has already drawn up a manufacturing agreement with Motorola, Inc., under which Motorola will turn out EVR for institutions in less than two years and for the public market by late...
...allowed to continue to "double as secretary of the CEP," I hope I can continue to depend upon someone like Mr. Alexander to sharpen my prose by the judicious use of ellipses and to clarify its meaning by keeping it free from the confusions of context. Edward T. Wilcox Director of General Education
Much police frustration would vanish overnight if salaries rose by 50%-to what many union plumbers make. Police brains would sharpen immensely if every department in the country stopped requiring even the best-educated rookies to start out as foot patrolmen. Instead, the police ought to ease archaic seniority and allow college graduates to start as management trainees. Equally important, police duties should be drastically reduced and refined. Certainly, police should not be responsible for carting drunks to jail-one-third of all arrests. A good case could be made for putting traffic control in the hands of some other...
Leeway. The Democrats will doubtless try to sharpen the contrast. Both Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy professed satisfaction at the prospect of running against a Nixon-Agnew ticket, although Humphrey had more reason to be happy. Had the Republicans picked Nelson Rockefeller, the temptation for the Democrats to desert their front runner would have been greater...
Whatever you do with your money, don't let the pains of having it snuff out the pleasures of wanting. The only point of having money is the freedom it gives you to sharpen your desires to learn more, help more, play more, enjoy more, and make life even more extraordinary than it is anyway. Certainly money can buy happiness; the secret is how to use it. I trust you will use yours well. And if you find some good new way teach us. God knows we need...