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With all the hesitancy of a schoolgirl on her first date, the British government last week prepared to embrace commercial TV. But before anyone's hair could get mussed, the government laid down strict rules of conduct in a white paper: 1) All TV stations accepting commercials must be owned and operated by a public corporation similar to the existing British Broadcasting Corp. 2) The new corporation will sell time to private companies, and they, in turn, may sell advertising. 3) The corporation has the right to examine all scripts in advance, to forbid the broadcasting of "specified classes...
...agreed that none of the schools would be identified in the book, and only four colleges refused a request to participate in the canvass. One of these had a strict regulation against drinking; hence it was afraid that its undergraduates would emulate their professors by seeking the protection of the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering the questionnaires...
...faculty capable of handling such a plan. Not more than one per cent of any freshman or sophomore class would be truly worthy of benefiting from the idealistic and flexibility of Plan B. Students would be unable to 'dig in' and know where to start. Straight from the strict discipline of secondary school the average freshman would be lost in a world without marks or attendance rules. A year might go by before his first 'progress examination' told him he was in real trouble. The faculty on the other hand, good as it may be, could scarcely supply...
...riches out of the Arabian nights, some from the duties leveled on the annual torrent of Mohammedan pilgrims to Holy Mecca, but mostly from the vast oil deposits which the King leased to U.S. oil companies on a 50-50 basis. His present share: $200 million a year. A strict Moslem, who forbade smoking, drinking and even non-Moslem churches among the foreigners who came to draw his oil, he nevertheless took to modern inventions like a child let loose in Toyland, eventually had his palaces festooned with telephones and radios, his courtyards teeming with fleets of automobiles, including...
...soloist possesses to a supreme degree one of the chief requirements for playing Romantic works with freedom and yet clarity; a sense of rhythmic propulsion. One can only be free of a strict meter when one controls it absolutely; Mr. Berman did. The innumerable arpeggios were not merely a blur of sound but a powerfully directed line...