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...said last week. "Now it is hard work." Among projects that the Nobel money will help fund are neighborhood cooperatives, efforts to find housing and employment to dissuade people from resorting to terrorism, and other social programs'. Williams and Corrigan also cite a statistic that argues for their success: since their crusade was launched 14 months ago, violence in Northern Ireland has been cut by half...
...Cincinnati story is typical of a trend that is sweeping the newspaper business. Troubled by drooping circulation-and impressed by the success of consultants in winning bigger ratings for local television newscasts-publishers are flocking to a growing band of specialists who treat circulatory problems. The news doctors, as these practitioners are sometimes called, are secretive about their prices, methods and recommendations, but most major dailies have employed them at one time or another. Their fees can run as high...
Ellsberg lashed out at an American policy that he termed "balance of terror." Invoking the success of student activism in helping to end the Vietnam war. Ellsberg called for a revival of that student spirit...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S question for future societies, which he pictures as technological utopias, has always been "Where do we go from here?" Now Clarke himself may be a writer with no place to go. After the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film based on Clarke's screenplay, came Rendezvous with Rama, his 1973 novel which took the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell awards for science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke has become a hard act to follow, particularly for the author himself...
While many may envy Clarke's success at relocating himself off the subcontinent in an island paradise, few will care about his domestic difficulties, described in "Servant Problem--Oriental Style." Nor is the reader likely to admire Clarke's wit in suggesting that Appuhamy, his houseboy for eight years and the father of 13 children, should receive a complimentary vasectomy as remuneration for services rendered. Equally boring are Clarke's tax problems, his alimony difficulties, his spinal injury, and the roster of literary celebrities and other personalities whom Clarke has met in the lobby of New York's Chelsea Hotel...