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...voted to strike in October, the first month of heavy fall advertising, if the dismissals were carried out. They fear that the famed Paris-Match spirit has been fatally damaged, that the flamboyant weekly will never be quite the same again. "We are a team, with our 1,000th issue just published," said a veteran staffer. "It was going to be a big fete with a photo exposition at the Louvre with 1,000 pictures. Now, instead, the mood is one of mourning...
...these coherent qualities that make laser light so narrow-beamed, so easy to focus and so powerful. Laser light can be focused into a spot with a diameter of only I/10,000th of a centimeter. Concentrated into so small an area, it burns billions of times brighter than the sun's surface. Instead of rapidly diverging...
Most of Alistair Cooke's readers and listeners seem to agree. A nuisance he is to conventional thought, both in his column for the Guardian and in his Sunday evening broadcast from New York for the BBC. (His 1,000th broadcast was what provoked the Guardian's praising with faint damns.) Cooke, 59, takes obvious delight in confounding the usual cliches about the U.S., in praising what is denounced, in minimizing what's exaggerated, in try ing to persuade his audience to give up the "easy joys of righteous indignation."He is a master of the unexpected...
...000th BBC broadcast, celebrated with considerable fanfare both in London and New York, Cooke broke his own rules and devoted his full 15 minutes to Viet Nam. Yet, as he remarked on the air, he would rather discuss the coming of spring or children at play. "Whenever things look the least bit good," he says, "I'd much rather talk about the American phenomenon of summer bachelors than Viet Nam." Because of this attitude, Cooke's critics charge him with reporting only the "smiling face of America," of "fiddling while Rome burns." To which Cooke once replied...
...previous week 542 Americans had died in action, only one short of the record toll set only two weeks before. So far this year, 3,254 Americans have been killed v. 9,353 for all of last year-and, at current casualty rates, this week the 20,000th U.S. serviceman will fall on the battlefields of Viet...