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...Reddin was more straight-shooting. Before the show he had quipped: "I believe each man should start at the top of his chosen profession." Afterwards he said, "You know, it's not as easy as it looks." Despite two weeks of video-taped dry runs, he did not transmit the Cronkite-like "casualness" that he had promised. His normally easy Irish smile switched on when it should have been turned off, and during his patriotic peroration his thin, reedy voice cracked like the Liberty Bell...
...floods, shipping accidents and other news events and still return in time to meet competitive deadlines. "They are as indispensable as the walkie-talkie and the reporter's pencil," claims Shiro Hara, managing editor of Yomiuri. Many of the aircraft are equipped to process film in flight, then transmit it to newspaper offices via mobile radiophoto equipment. When a disaster breaks, speed is so important that most of the papers' airport mechanics are also trained to fill in as photographers. The dailies even use vacant lots near their offices as sites on which to drop negatives from helicopters...
...discussants seem agreed in questioning whether "faculty people are up to the changes that are required." Howard asserts, "The tradition that professors preserve and transmit is likely to be an obstacle to understanding those who are victims of that tradition." Harding adds a remark that will warm the hearts of many of the most militant black students: "Some of the best teachers are people who have had other than just formal education experiences...
...appeals involved two men who were convicted of conspiring to transmit U.S. defense secrets to the Soviet Union-an American engineer named John Butenko and Igor Ivanov, a chauffeur for a Soviet trade agency in the U.S. In their cases, and another that involved a pair of extortionists, the Government's position was that the trial judge should decide what portions of the eavesdropping transcripts were "arguably relevant" to the trial. He would then turn over those portions-and only those-to the defense...
...dawning intelligence of man. The first toolmaker gained an enormous survival advantage over his fellows-and may have asserted it by cornering the local supply of women. This male dominance operated to drive less intellectual males to the periphery of the troop, or tribe; it also served to transmit the toolmaker's genes to the next generation...