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...George Segal) is called Babel. The doctors (Joan Hackett, Richard A. Dysart, Donald Moffat, Michael C. Gwynne) dress in white uniforms that make them look almost military, like shock troops of the future. After Benson has had the operation, which misfires, he runs all over Los Angeles killing at random, until he is violently dispatched by a couple of police sharpshooters...
...poll, conducted among 1,029 Californians selected at random, 51% said that there has been too much Watergate coverage, only 11% said that there has been too little, and 34% said that the amount has been adequate. In the same sampling, 44% of respondents considered Watergate coverage to be fair and unbiased, down from 55% in a similar poll last October; the percentage of Californians who found the coverage unfair and biased against the President rose from 17% in October to 31% in last month's survey...
...will, squirming through air-conditioning ducts to bite the folks good night. After a while, indeed, one begins to suspect that they had a chaw or two on the wiring of the computer that picked this lot of survival candidates. There are more neurotics among them than a random sampling of subway riders would probably produce, and they are not very clever with their hands, either. In various skirmishes the percent age of bat casualties is far lower than that of the human...
...administration has projected a re-examination of undergraduate education that will glance beyond the random issues which have normally occupied the Faculty's docket since the late '40s. The specific innovations, reforms and proposals of the past few years contain the germs of valuable educational ideals and principles that need to be nurtured and fully articulated in order to influence the work of the second "Redbook committee." Without student efforts even these piecemeal advances might have faltered. But next year's student body must begin to explore the general values and principles which underlie their specific complaints. Failing this they...
...called, 18 have either disappeared, committed new crimes or bent the rules sufficiently to be sent back to prison. Supervisor Johnson believes that it was one of them who burgled the Johnson apartment, leaving an anonymous thank-you note. The program will now try to improve results by dropping random selection. Meanwhile, there is special pride in the thief who last month became the center's first graduate. Now completely on his own, he is working full-time as a truck driver...