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...remarkable technological advances were made at papers where unions are weak or nonexistent. Machines were developed that could translate an edited story photographically into justified columns of print, without the intercession of printers, hot metal or ink. These new "cold type" procedures are dramatically faster; a photocomposing machine can spew out 150 lines a minute, compared to three lines a minute for a man and a Linotype. At a number of papers like the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Times-Herald, Miami Herald and Detroit News (TIME, Dec. 17), the technology is dazzling. Reporters compose their stories on keyboards attached...
...even more than Truman and Johnson, whose racy vocabularies were legendary. Truman's language, though earthy, had a funny, folksy flair that Nixon's lacks. As for Lyndon Johnson, his command of invective was a constant source of purple surprise. But unlike Nixon, he did not mechanically spew out obscenities; he used them pointedly to cap his stories. L.B.J. could make people chuckle with his inventive cussing and barnyard phrases, and those who were not afraid of him rather admired what Newsman Peter Lisagor once called his "rich, almost lyrical, Pedernales patois...
...THIS is bickering, because this book stands a good chance of leaving the umpteen other books that this campaign will spew forth holding their hats. There are, of course, probably valid objections to Thompson's tampering with the truth with such unabashed glee, but his metaphysical point of view is so seductive--so right, that it's hard to notice. It should by rights be simple to tell when Dr. Thompson is jettisoning the truth, yet the fact is that his fantasies are close to ringing true, not so much because he is being irresponsibly unclear, but because the campaign...
...considered equipped to handle biochemistry and the pursuit of medicine. They would be given grades ranging from an A to a B minus. Under this system, competing against course material rather than classmates would no longer be a myth. And medical school admissions computers across the country might spew out less rejections for Harvard premeds. Many courses in this and other colleges are considered honors courses. Chem 20 should be one of them. Samuel Z. Goldhaber '72 [Harvard Medical School...
...refuse to believe that your cover of Oct. 2 shows two profiles, each depicting a different view of American life. What is shown, in fact, is a chalice-the one from which all Americans drink up the hogwash that both candidates spew forth...