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...Hiss-who denied all charges and has continued to do so to this day-was convicted at a second trial for perjury. (His first trial ended in a hung jury.) The intervening events make compelling drama: the discovery of the "pumpkin papers"; the search for the Hisses' old Woodstock typewriter, allegedly used to retype the secret documents; the investigation into a homosexual phase in Chambers' past; the charges and denials, the courtroom theatrics and, as ever, the uncertainties...
...Woodstock era discredited the practice of stereotyping without significantly deepening Americans' cross-cultural awareness. Hopefully the highly publicized confession of the country's most prominent minority leader will serve to remind us that we all harbor stereotypes and prejudices, and thereby encourage a more realistic perspective on race relations within our society...
Similar plans are working at Steamboat in Colorado and at Vermont's Woodstock Inn and Resort...
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...driving force, it is probably Robert Pittman, 29, a former radio program director who formatted stations to fit the tastes of the listeners it had, and the listeners it wanted. He did the same thing when he started to develop MTV in mid-1980. "Where is the Woodstock generation?" Pittman asks. "They're all old and bald." Pittman, who is suited and blow-dried, went after what he called "the TV babies. The set is part of our lives, we want it to respond to our every need and desire." He corralled an ad agency that promptly recycled...