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...standards for the private transmission service. Experts believe cable could someday become a means of unifying and streamlining communities by providing more efficient, pertinent local programming. But few city halls have demonstrated the sophistication needed to manage cable, and many have avoided the challenge altogether. Borton predicts that whoever devises a convenient means of implementing cable will be responsible for bringing the computer age into the American home...
...weak government and the possibility of another round of elections within a year reflect a troubled and divided nation. Facing this future, Israel is potentially more dependent upon the U.S. than before. But the Administration would have to tread carefully in any attempts to influence Israel's leaders, whoever they turn out to be, since a weak Israeli government will be more anxious than ever to demonstrate its independence. -By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by David Aikman and Robert Rosenberg/Jerusalem
...explanations are heard. One is the reassuring personality of whoever is the viewer's favorite anchorman. The second is the visual appearance of actuality-even when what is shown on television is an edited, or staged, reality. Reuven Frank, the crusty, capable veteran news producer at NBC, regrets that nowadays "what television does uniquely, the transmission of experience-what was it like?-is a rare and accidental accomplishment. Television has become something to listen to from the next room. So has television news." Frank scorns "split screens and zooms and star bursts and insets and flip-overs" to give...
...York College All-Stars play the New Jersey College All-Stars. The 2,000 spectators rattled around in the stadium like peas in the bottom of a can. "I always go to a game on Sunday," Feldman said wistfully. "I go to see the Yankees, the Mets, whoever is in town. I just love this game. I can't imagine a summer without baseball...
...will, of course, need far more than luck to implement its program of change for French society, but the Cheysson-Reagan exchange illuminates an important fact: so far as France's powerful administrative apparatus is concerned, there is less to the latest government switch than meets the eye. Whoever is running the country politically, bureaucratic power within the French civil service remains guarded by the graduates of a small number of closely knit, government-linked grandes écoles (great schools), which also provide manpower for the national political parties, be they of the left, right or center. The bureaucratic...