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...scientific realism and an optimistic view of a cosmos in which all nations are united in keeping peace-despite villainous Klingons and Romulans. Jesco Von Puttkamer, a NASA scientist who gave two S.R.O. lectures at the convention, said that the show "reflects a positivistic attitude. It's a mirror to our present world with some adventure thrown in." Another academician who gives the show high marks is Astronomy Professor Leo Standeford, who has conducted a one-credit course in Star Trek at Minnesota's Mankato State University. His esteem is shared by the Smithsonian Institution, which has acquired...
...royal flush for Fleet Street's sensation seeker, the London Daily Mirror. Princess Anne GETS OBSCENE PHONE CALLS, headlined the paper, disclosing that a devious dialer had uncovered Anne's top-secret number at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, where she and Husband Mark Phillips live. Only two days after the number was changed, reported the Mirror, the off-color caller discovered the new royal connection, resumed his work, and at one point "started to whistle the national anthem" before the princess could hang up. Though Buckingham Palace spokesmen dismissed the business as a simple case...
Some linguistic purists wrongly fear slang and neologisms: these are the life signs of a language, its breath on the mirror. The danger now is something that seems new and ominous: an indifference to language, a devaluation that leaves it bloodless and zombie-like. It is as if language had ceased to be important, to be worthy of attention. Television undoubtedly has something to do with that. With its chaotic parade of images TV makes language subordinate, merely a part of the general noise. It has certainly subverted the idea of reading as entertainment. A recent study by A.C. Nielsen...
Ford's speech, delivered the following day, was a mirror image of Brezhnev's, in the sense that the points ignored by the Soviet leader were the ones stressed by the U.S. President. While Brezhnev listened to a translation through a headset and jotted notes, Ford emphasized the importance of the Basket Three principles of liberty of thought, movement, and the flow of information. He also gave measured stress to the phrase "and the possibility of change by peaceful means," citing Berlin as "a flashpoint of confrontation in the past [that] can provide an example of peaceful settlement...
...almost become a symbol of all that Britain wants to stand for -something safe, sane, stable and as everlasting as the Tower of London," praised the Sunday Mirror. The tribute was just one of many inspired by the 75th birthday this week of Britain's Queen Mother, who endures as her country's beloved matriarch. Though she declined to appear for any television interviews, she willingly posed for an official birthday photo, and her royal family planned a black-tie dinner at Buckingham Palace complete with Scottish pipers, a three-tiered birthday cake and, rumor had it, some...