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...watching over his loyal floormen from a swivel-chaired aerie has to be as heady for Walter Cronkite as describing five blast-offs Into space. Yet all the feats of gadgetry, all the energetic floor work went largely to waste during last week's noisy and frequently mindless prime-time demonstrations...
...damage that has already been done (they claim) by the hundreds of schemes enacted in recent years. The conservatives do not understand, claim Carter and Vice-Presidential Nominee Walter Mondale. What they advocate, they say, is new Government attention to correct old Government failures, to protect families against mindless, heartless, insensitive bureaucratic intrusions so that people can preserve and nurture traditional American values in this accelerated and crowded society. "If we want less Government," said Carter, "we must have stronger families." The argument is so complex and subtle that even Mill might have been hard put to resolve...
...celebrate the colliding of Tall Ships and other mindless Bicen. Fanfare, Freddie Hubbard will come into the mall this weekend...
...fears rose that the rioters might break out of police cordons and attack white suburbs, Minister of Police James Kruger invoked a section of the country's Riotous Assemblies Act that forbids all outdoor gatherings without official permission. By Week's end blacks−angered by the mindless vandalism−turned on the rioters. Residents of one township beat off a gang that tried to wreck a beer hall...
...have a wide range of stations to turn to on your car radio. For mindless bubble-gum noise, there's WRKO, 680 on the AM dial, and WMEX at 1510. You know the style: abrasive disk jockeys, mind-numbing disco, "free" give aways, etc. For those into classical music, WCRB-AM at 1330 and FM at 102.5 is the place to turn. Boston has also been blessed with an excellent jazz station, WBUR, 90.9 FM, run by students at Boston University. If you're into country and western, WCOP at 1150 AM is probably your best...