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...Administration disagreed and turned down Moscow's plan. White House strategists contend that the Soviets are merely trying to get rid of Safeguard on the cheap. The Russians, they claim, fret that the ABM can be upgraded from a shield for individual silos into a defense for much wider areas against a Soviet counterstrike. That would enable the U.S. to launch a first strike against the Soviet Union with less fear of retaliation, upsetting the nuclear "balance of terror...
...television as we know it is in for some radical changes in the next few years. Video-cassettes and videocartridges will be marketed. Cable television (CATV), heretofore providing only network programming to areas outside the range of broadcast TV, will move into the major urban areas, offering a wider selection and, hopefully, better programming. The larger concern of the alternate television movement is, of course, that a medium with such potential not be limited to televising live home games of the New York Knickerbockers or offering instant access to the Best of Ed Sullivan. But if the eight-page section...
...videocassette industry continues to develop along the lines the industry is directing it, viewers will simply have a wider choice of programming and the advantage of being able to see it at their own convenience. The videocassette industry is, for purely commercial reasons, ignoring the special property of videotape-information storage-and instead is using the cassette as a means of distributing that information. Cable television-not cassettes-is the most efficient means of transmitting the information that videotape can store, and, together with videotape, is capable of restructuring television in such a way as to eliminate the need...
...this I mean that every effort to avert acceptance of error and failure-every "cosmetic" approach, in current Washington parlance-is simply a formula for further evason and self-deception and for a longer, wider war. Every effort to "save face" will lead to new Cambodia's, renewed bombing of the North or bizarre high-risk speculation, like the abortive prisoner-rescue effort...
Nixon has changed his tailoring too, and just as subtly. Anthony T. Rossi, sales manager of the President's favorite tailoring firm, H. Freeman & Son of Philadelphia, has persuaded the President to wear his somber blue and gray corporate suits with a slightly (⅝ in.) wider lapel. Before his European trip last fall, the President bought four new suits (average price: $275). Nixon was even gently talked into a couple of reticently modish double-breasted suits, the first he has worn since his congressional days. "He's a person who doesn't like to be told what...