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There is some evidence in the numbers; there is more in the numbing sensation that too many recent movies impose on both mind and body. Back in the 1930s, when a double feature could sprint through the sprockets in 2½ hours, Columbia Pictures Mogul Harry Cohn announced that "I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good." To which Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz cracked, "Imagine-the whole world wired to Harry Conn...
...though the regatta draws thousands to the banks of the Thames River near New London, Conn., it traditionally marks neither the end nor the high point of the schools' seasons. Winning the Eastern Sprint Championship is at least as important as capturing the Harvard-Yale race, and one or both of the teams usually travels to England's Henley Regatta or some other race to close out the season...
...also decided to lift all rate regulation from MCI, Sprint and the other emerging long-distance carriers that compete with AT&T's long-distance service, and that in most cases already undercut its prices. The move was largely symbolic. The new long-distance carriers have been regulated scarcely at all since their inception. Nevertheless, AT&T was hardly happy about the decision The FCC left AT&T fully regulated, as the dominant carrier by far of long-distance calls. The company still must submit rate changes to the Government and justify them with elaborate data. Said...
...unlike standard sprint racing, the Head does not send boats out in competition head-to-head (side-to-side, actually). Since the river is so narrow and several bridges obstruct the route, the boats start one after another at 10 to 15 second intervals. The results are determined by the clock, not by the order of finish. The boats are seeded, however, and spectators can determine the progress of the race by the relative positions of differently numbered boats. If, for example, boat number six is in second position as it passes Weeks Bridge then that crew has moved...
Since such absolute control did not work, the new leadership is trying to transfer more authority to the provinces, more autonomy to the cities, more responsibility to the peasant villages. But, as reins are let loose, other problems sprint. How does one settle the impending dispute between the provinces of Sichuan and Hubei over how they will share the electric power from the huge dams planned in the throat of the Yangtze gorges? Or deal with the growing resistance of newly autonomous provinces to the army's network of farms, arsenals, production plants? What does the new peasant "responsibility" imply...