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SECURITY. To Americans, the precautions surrounding the Olympics appear more than adequate. The police departments in Los Angeles and surrounding communities plan to assign 16,000 officers to watch the athletes and spectators; in addition, 8,000 unarmed college students will be deputized to stand guard and summon the real police to any trouble spot. The FBI during the Olympics will increase its force of agents in the Los Angeles area from the usual 400 to 700. To the $100 million that the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee proposes to spend on security, Congress has authorized the Defense Department...
...party in one of those porticoed palaces that seize an otherwise perfectly sane person with the desire to summon up some hounds and go terrorize a fox, the anniversary of her birth had been toasted with champagne. They put the author in a prominent chair, and people came and knelt to share a word. Elsewhere in the rooms, literary conversations were going on. The theme of the annual William Faulkner conference this year upstate at Oxford, one organizer volunteered, is the humor in Faulkner's works. "A lot of people just don't see it," he added...
...announcements, like 'The messenger service doesn't stop here on Saturday any more.' " The only thing needed to make the decay of the telephone service even more exasperating is the same pollution that afflicts the Postal Service, not junk mail but phone calls from computers that summon you out of the bathtub to hear their spiels for more life insurance. The Internal Revenue Service has even acquired computers that will telephone an alleged delinquent all day long until he answers...
Sevareid also emphasized a need for journalism to resist censorship. The purpose of the press is to "find truth as best we can and transmit it with all the skill and courage we can summon," he said...
...infused, at the start, with a real sense of fright: the noonday demon, as it were, lurking in the woodpile. Surls' huge wraiths posture and writhe on point with a sort of evilly humorous grace; they summon up nursery horrors, tree demons, swamp critters. They have some of the charged, crude intensity of New Mexican santos. Surls is a good craftsman who does not make a parade of technique. He lacks laconic effects - nothing too beautiful: storytelling rather than elocution. His preferred tools are the chain saw, the ax and the blowtorch, with which he "paints" areas of sooty...