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...professional convention watchers have suggested that, with the spread of swifter and cheaper electronic communication, the convention itself may some day become obsolete. After all, why spend four days in St. Louis when you can summon up all the data you need on your desktop video display terminal, and talk to whomever you want on your WATS line? "In the not-too-distant future people will be able to sit in their homes and watch as well as participate in conventions," says Leo Bonardi, Hilton's eastern regional director of sales. "But to my way of thinking, electronics will never...
...SWIFTER RESERVATIONS. Too many travelers still encounter long delays in reaching reservations clerks by phone -partly because the clerks are tied up explaining the complicated new fares to other callers-and so more clerks are being added. United claims that all its calls now get answered within 20 seconds...
...truism among convicts that "capital punishment means that if you have the capital you don't get the punishment." Given that, what makes Morrow assume that swift justice would mean anything more than swifter pardons for the Richard Nixons and swifter retaliatory lockups for the Joan Littles...
Despite the NGU epidemic, gonorrhea, which generally attacks the poor, blacks and other less privileged members of society, receives swifter and more comprehensive care. The reason, in part, is that the symptoms of NGU, though uncomfortable, are generally relatively mild compared with those of gonorrhea; male victims sometimes feel they can defer medical attention. Women are usually unaware that they are infected. Doctors, too, are at fault. Some still are not familiar with NGU and confuse it with gonorrhea, resulting in inappropriate treatment...
...Suez war of 1956 took only 100 hours. The 1967 war lasted a mere six days. The speed and style of the Israelis-and the ineptness of the Arabs-had accustomed the world to swift battles in the Middle East, if not to peaceful solutions. Another, perhaps even swifter battle seemed reasonable this time...