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...statistics and details. Warner, having written a succession of gloomy political stories, was pleased to be discussing the good fortunes of the black middle class. "It's nice to see that society can function despite all the things that have gone wrong," he says. Contributing Editor Ivan Webster was assigned an accompanying story about the black underclass - an experience far less heartening. "It's a grim but necessary part of the larger story," he notes. "It amounts to a cry of alarm - I only hope the cry is heard...
...Hotel on Route 128. The object of the event is to obtain sponsors for each runner to pay a dollar or more per mile. The proceeds will go to the United Cerebral Palsy Association. Registration forms may be obtained by writing to Johnny Kelley, UCP of Metropolitan Boston, 210 Webster Street, West Newton, Ma. 02165, or by calling 965-9850. Registration entries must be received before April 25. The jog-a-thon entries may run up to 5 miles at their own speed. It will not be a competitive race but rather a "fun" get together for runners or joggers...
...however, the extent that film criticism is limited to these functions is the extent to which I loathe the profession. Being a critic is embarrassing enough to start out with. The very term "critic" has a negative connotation: One of the definitions in my Webster's reads "a person who indulges in faultfinding and censure." Is that what we do? Indulge in faultfinding and censure? The artist bats his brains out for months or even years to come up with one small work, and the critic sits down and bangs out his review in one night. If there were...
...Xerox Corp. has grown to wealth and prominence by making it relatively easy and inexpensive to copy almost anything. Yet for the past decade, researchers at the company's Webster, N.Y., laboratories have been trying to find a way to render documents invisible to the luminescent eye of a Xerox machine. That seemingly suicidal quest was prompted by a growing clamor from publishers of copyrighted material who are angry about unlawful pirating of their works-and by Government nervousness about dissidents leaking xerographic evidence of federal mischief to the public (read Jack Anderson...
Leachim's brain is packed with a fund of information that includes the contents of Compton's Encyclopaedia, Webster's New World Dictionary, a Ginn science book, a thesaurus and a Macmillan reading series. He has also been programmed with biographical information on the 29 students, including their reading levels, math scores and hobbies. As he works with the students, Leachim keeps track of their progress and changing scores, sometimes asking extra questions of the faster learners and drilling slower ones on older material. After about six months, he will have to be reprogrammed to keep...