Word: virtualization
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...programs-welfare and hospitals. Around the U.S., correspondents reported on the shivers that New York's threatened bankruptcy is sending through national financial markets. Says Associate Editor Frank Merrick, who catalogued the effects on other cities trying to borrow in order to meet expenses: "There's a virtual fruit basket of problems. The rot of the Big Apple could spoil a whole bunch of cities." From Washington, Correspondents David Beckwith and John Stacks cabled reports on the debate over extending federal aid, while Reporter-Researchers Allan Hill and Marta Dorion combed the dense and often deceptive budgetary studies...
...What Conduct Unbecoming quickly becomes, though, is a wheezy courtroom thriller and, eventually, a nostalgic vindication of the British lads out on the frontier Concepts of military honor and justice neatly survive the half-witted examination to which Screenwriter Robert Enders subjects them. The movie is cast with a virtual mothball fleet of character actors (Trevor Howard, Christopher Plummer, Richard Attenborough), who are directed by Michael Anderson (The Shoes of the Fisherman) with almost definitive incompetence. One scene alone, in which Miss York is forced to reenact her attack and crawls toward the camera on all fours, squealing like...
...imagination. Playboy has expanded its Playmate of the Month spread from two or three pages to as many as nine. Penthouse routinely features male-female and female-female couples. Hefner's Oui (circ. 1.3 million), which set out three years ago to out-raunch Penthouse, is a virtual consumer guide to self-abuse, sadomasochism, bondage and other subjects that were once the province of hard-core porn...
Durkin won a surprisingly easy victory in what should have been an extremely close election, judging from pre-election polls, and from the virtual dead heat in the first run last November...
...past two months, a bitter division within the Armed Forces Movement had brought government in Portugal to a virtual standstill and the country perilously close to civil war. Focus of the dispute was General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 54, a close ally of Communist Party Boss Alvaro Cunhal and a woolly-minded Marxist ideologue who favored the creation in Portugal of a socialist state along Eastern European lines. Last week in an apparent victory for moderate forces within the M.F.A., Gonçalves fell from power. In the face of virtually open rebellion by non-Communist officers...