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...president and philosopher of the future (TIME, May 25), foresee a decline of textbooks and suspect that network TV will be reduced to producing little more than sports and news. Klein also maintains that cartridge marketing plans and, in fact, cassette converter units are already 20 years out of date. The solution, he says, is cable TV (which perhaps 75% of Americans will have by 1980) hooked to a central computer switching station with hundreds of cassettes on tap. "I call it 'jukebox TV,' " says Klein. Klein leaves NBC this week to form a company to mesh computer...
...particularly worried that a limited ceasefire might give Egypt an opportunity to move Russian missiles up to the Suez Canal. In Tel Aviv, Foreign Minister Abba Eban expressed similar concern, arguing that a temporary cease-fire "would be a certificate for the resumption of hostilities on a fixed date. It would be only a phase of war, whereas a permanent cease-fire would be a transition for peace...
...western, the war film, who would say "bwana" on safari? They would like to see sexual equilibrium. But then would could tolerate Eliot Gould's lines in Getting Straight: "She's a good scientist, lousy lay"; Candice Bergen's lines, "I didn't even feel like a date-you didn't buy me popcorn" or anonymous gems: "Women have that charming ability to adapt to whatever man they're with...
Washington's intelligence community describes the recent activity as "wriggles" in Cuba. The wriggles appear to date from Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko's trip to Havana last fall and a return visit to Moscow by Fidel Castro's brother Raul last spring. The Soviets agreed to refurbish the Cuban military with everything from new knapsacks to improved, longer-range SA-2 missiles, similar to the ones emplaced in Egypt. Cuba now has 24 SA-2 sites, each with six missiles. In addition, Moscow has upgraded Fidel Castro's air force by supplying a 25-plane...
...social and economic development of Asia's only Catholic nation. In the past three years alone, the Philippine Bishops' Conference has inaugurated more than 2,000 projects, including rural credit unions, farming cooperatives and manpower training programs. This month the hierarchy made its boldest move to date...