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Political silence. Intellectuals have a way of selling out the people politically as well as artistically. When Peron was overthrown by the "Gorilla" junta of the oligarchy, with 300 killed in the streets by aerial bombardment, "those who could write had nothing to say," Today in Argentina those nationalist intellectuals who have not lost touch with the masses (like Solanas and many of the guerrillas he interviews) are either exiled or underground...
...inventor and industrialist; in Manhattan. A college dropout (Harvard, University of Arizona, Columbia), Fairchild turned a knack for tinkering into an aviation and photographic empire. While at Harvard he invented a primitive flash camera; by 1918 he had developed one of the first between-the-lens shutters for aerial cameras. The need for an aircraft to use his cameras for aerial mapping led him into plane building, and in 1926 the fledgling Fairchild Aviation Corp. introduced the first enclosed-cabin monoplane. During World War II, Fairchild turned out thousands of PT-19 trainers and developed the C-119 "Flying Boxcar...
...rhetoric was wrapped in unconscionably scary language, there were at least two reasonable grounds on which to question the plane's viability. Ecologically, the SST would have been a noise polluter unless equipped with extra gear that would severely reduce its payload. Economically, it could have been an aerial Edsel. The plane's astronomical price tag (at least $40 million each v. $28 million for the less advanced Concorde) left doubts that enough buyers could be found to recapture the $1.3 billion necessary to build a prototype...
When orbiting satellites recently transmitted a batch of aerial photographs of China, U.S. intelligence experts quickly detected something new. A number of small holes showed up on the photos, and the analysts figured that they were almost surely "soft" sites for missiles. Their conclusion: Peking is ready to begin deploying medium-range ballistic missiles...
Comparing the aerial photographs with maps of the region made in 1965, the HAC found that the boundaries of the fields being cultivated were the same as they were five years ago. In addition, the fields looked well-established, not as if they were of recent origin...