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...surprise only to those who confidently predict the demise of every old technology the minute a new one comes along. Although radio was forced into the background by TV during the 1950s, the medium did not die; it merely took on new forms. As TV became the nation's main purveyor of mass entertainment, radio turned predominantly local and aimed to please smaller, more specific segments of the audience. The whole family might gather around the TV set at night, but people usually encountered radio in private moments--waking up in the morning, driving to work, getting ready...
...polish (an assistant coach: "One thing we'd like to do is get that sucker in the end zone"), it made up in enthusiasm (the play-by-play announcer: "That'll make it third and a country mile!"). During the broadcast, you could have fired a cannon down the main streets of either town and not hit a living soul...
Discussions preceding the summit have often seemed to highlight rather than narrow differences. On arms control, inevitably the main issue in a world living under a perpetual threat of nuclear extinction, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have exchanged proposals that call for cutting to 6,000 the number of "nuclear charges" in their arsenals, but they differ deeply on what warheads and bombs to put in that category. Progress, if any is possible, awaits a decision by Reagan to agree to some limits on his Star Wars defensive shield, or by Gorbachev to shoot for a deal without any such limits...
Subject to change, the talks are supposed to begin with arms control Tuesday morning, proceed to bilateral issues that afternoon, turn to regional relations Wednesday morning and conclude with human rights. Working parties are painstakingly reviewing 26 topics grouped under the four main headings...
...capital city of Manila. Participants arriving for a specially scheduled Cabinet meeting and a caucus of the ruling New Society Movement (K.B.L.) began queuing up at the palace an hour and a half early. At last, Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos called on his ministers to endorse their main item of business: Cabinet Bill No. 7, a call for elections to choose a President and Vice President on Jan. 17, 1986, 16 months ahead of schedule. The order was approved within seconds...