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...signed business contracts could be unsigned, handwritten wills could be rewritten, love letters could hurriedly be made more (or less) loving just before mailing. Boston's Paper Mate, a division of Gillette Co., one of the largest U.S. penmakers, will launch this spring a new $1.69 refillable pen whose ink is erasable. A $5 million ad campaign for the Eraser Mate will push it as a boon to students, to those who fill out many forms, and indeed just about anyone who needs what the company says "could be the end of writing mistakes...
...Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is a kind of guardian of federal funds, and the Public Broadcasting Service, which represents the individual stations. There is wholesale duplication of effort, and far too big a percentage of the TV budget is spent on administration rather than on programming. The CPB, whose members are appointed by the President, is overly sensitive to prevailing political winds, moreover. There is always a danger that a determined President will try to influence public television for his own purposes, as Richard Nixon did when he packed the CPB with his political pals...
...their shrewdness, however, the commissioners may have underestimated the public's desire for a much stronger alternative to the commercial networks, whose faults are on display every night of the week. While it has tried to insulate the system from politics with several bureaucratic changes, Van Deerlin notes, the report still leaves the public broadcasters dependent on regular appropriations. These must be approved by Congress as well as the President, and Congress this year has appropriated only $120 million, or a little more than a fifth of what Carnegie II eventually wants. Says he: "To have a first-rate...
...Well, Lord Copper, the choice seems between sending a staff reporter ... whose name the public doesn't know, or to get someone from outside with a name as a military expert. You see since we lost Hitchcock...
...successful biographer in his mid-50s. Isolated by choice on nine acres of land in upstate New York, Dubin begins a new book, mindful of the vicarious nature of his craft: "One writes lives he can't live." The subject in this case is D.H. Lawrence, whose yawps about sex and blood consciousness seem designed to unhinge middle-aged intellectuals. Dubin proves no exception and soon takes up with Fanny Bick, nearly 35 years his junior...