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Over the summer, Sam Brown, a former McCarthy campaign aide, has organized a "Viet Nam Moratorium Committee." The group is urging students and faculty across the country to boycott classes on October 15 and devote the day to demonstrating against the war. If the boycott is successful, it will be expanded each month-two days in November, three in December and so on. Separate antiwar demonstrations are planned for the streets of Chicago in October by the dominant wing of Students for a Democratic Society and by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam. Both could...
None of these tactics is guaranteed to curb the tough, durable crown-of-thorns. Australian researchers are pressing hard to find better answers. So, too, are 40 marine biologists and divers from San Diego's Westinghouse Lab who fanned out across the Pacific this summer in an expedition sponsored by the U.S. Government. Unless the crown-of-thorns is restrained, many more miles of coral in the Pacific and other seas will be ravaged by the spreading starfish...
...exhaust is channeled through complicated "extractors" or straight pipe "resonators" that make the humble bug sound like a snarling Ferrari or thundering Offenhauser. A less expensive gimmick is to wire a bottle of water under the exhaust pipe, where it produces a joyous shriek as exhaust blasts across its top. Thus, cars that leave the factories merely muttering turn up on the roads making more noise than factory machinery...
Shipbuilders are now trying to speed things up by building vessels designed to carry loaded barges across the ocean. The idea is to bypass completely the crowded docks at deepwater ports. Cargo would be loaded on the barges at an inland U.S. river port and unloaded at another-which could be on a U.S. river system or in Europe or Asia. The arrangement is an outgrowth of the trend toward shipping goods overseas in factory-loaded containers. It overcomes several drawbacks inherent in containers, however, notably their need for costly special dock facilities...
...third episode that keeps Spirits alive. Never Bet the Devil Your Head is Federico Fellini's first film since Juliet of the Spirits, and it is a 40-minute excursion across the surreal landscape of his boundless imagination. Never centers on a washed-up Shakespearean actor named Toby Dammit (Terence Stamp) who has come to Rome to star in "the first Catholic Western." He is hounded by his own self-contempt and haunted by a vision of a corrupt cupid from hell, a devil in crinoline (Marina Yaru), who appears before him bouncing a large and somehow ominous white...