Word: tappings
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...used to go out at night just to make sure it was still there. Then when I'd get up the next day, I'd say 'Good morning, car.'" D. Parke Gibson, a New York City marketing analyst who advises corporations on how to tap the $46 billion-a-year black market, says that buying sprees by blacks may be something of a defense mechanism, a compensation for earlier deprivation. "We couldn't live in Hillsborough or Beverly Hills," he says, "but we could have the same kind of color television...
...future. To British Science Writer Adrian Berry, tomorrow is not all that bleak. In a forthcoming book, The Next Ten Thousand Years (Saturday Review Press/E.P. Button; $8.95), Berry boldly predicts that technology will confound the prophets of doomsday. What is more, he says, mankind will eventually reach out to tap the resources of the entire solar system and, ultimately, the far reaches of the galaxy...
Rosovsky said he no longer sees a consensus among educators and students regarding the goals of undergraduate education. Liberal education has lost much of its meaning at Harvard, Rosovsky says, as General Education courses often merge with departmental offerings. Rosovsky is fond of asking audiences, "Should tap-dancing be given credit?" and answering that "we have lost the capacity to answer such questions because we have no criteria to do so." Within two years the new Redbook committee, he says, should try to reach a new consensus about what undergraduate education should be. Like its predecessor, the new committee...
...narcotics charges. The Justices ruled 9-0 that a lower court had properly dismissed Giordano's indictment because the evidence against him had been obtained in an unlawful wiretap. The 1968 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act gave federal investigators vastly expanded authority to use taps-as long as they were personally approved by the Attorney General or a specially designated assistant. But dozens of authorizations, including those in the Giordano case, were simply initialed "JNM" by an obscure Mitchell aide named Sol Lindenbaum, or sometimes by Lindenbaum's secretary. That irregularity, the court concluded...
...apparently wanted to sign them himself-the better to enhance his chosen political pose as a tough, sleeves-up crime fighter. So, at first, Lindenbaum would prepare the necessary papers, which Mitchell would hurriedly sign. After a while, Lindenbaum took to signing Mitchell's initials on the tap requests when Mitchell was out of town -often without even discussing the request with his boss on the telephone...