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...made a mockery by those who would freeload off their fellow man." In 1965: "The civil rights movement, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King calls it, has had an uncommon number of moral degenerates leading the parade. The Negroes of America have a Congress that would tomorrow enact Webster's Dictionary into law with a civil rights label on it." Even 17th century metaphysicians were not safe. Helms chastised a state university teacher for assigning Andrew Marvell's poem To His Coy Mistress. The instructor was removed...
American firms experimenting with similar cameras tried last week to downplay Sony's breakthrough. "I can't understand all the fuss," said William Webster, vice president of RCA Laboratories in Princeton, N.J., which has developed a videotape camera that operates on the same principle. "Why would anyone want a still camera that takes pictures only as sharp as those on your TV? It's an idea we've discussed for years and clearly decided that there's no market for the product." Said Eastman Kodak Vice President John Robertson: "We expect traditional still photography...
...better equipped and endowed than many colleges. But Phillips Exeter Academy, which celebrates its 200th birthday this year, is only a prep school -though perhaps the best in the country. Its list of illustrious alumni is imposing. Among them: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Jay Rockefeller, Robert Benchley, Daniel Webster and Franklin Pierce. Equally imposing are the school's fees: $6,100 annually for tuition, room and board, paid by parents in 43 states and 27 foreign countries...
...there ever been a more bookish book than If on a winter's night a traveler! Ludmilla saves herself from rape by thrusting Webster's International between herself and her harasser. And when Ludmilla and "you" wind up making love, seduction turns bookish too: "Ludmilla, now you are being read...
...there were more to come. The following day, after addressing a civic club in Macon, Ga., FBI Agent Michael Twibell not only endorsed Director Webster's statements as "right on target" with "full facts behind him" but went on to finger one category of suspects. "Some of those kids were killed by their parents," Twibell remarked. The motive: the children had been "nuisances...