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High Price. The attacks, said McNamara, were "aimed at the heart of the petroleum system-major storage facilities and the distribution apparatus," and should in time impose "a lower ceiling on the number of men that can be supported in the South." The North Vietnamese will not find it easy to replace the wrecked facilities, McNamara pointed out, since "they have only a limited rebuilding capability"; the repairs call for "stocks and materials-large steel plates, for example-which are in very, very short supply in North Viet...
Condition of Choice. To many, the decision amounted to a suggestion that the states employ compulsory blood tests in their fight against the growing number of highway deaths. If so, the suggestion was hardly necessary. Many states already employ other methods, such as the drunkometer breathing apparatus. Seventeen have so-called "implied consent laws." meaning that anyone who drives there agrees to submit to a test of some sort or lose his road privileges. And a bill about to become law in California will give drivers a choice between blood, breath or urine tests...
...Alan sits at home and attends class via a two-way telephone hookup, paid for by the school board. Teachers and students must speak loudly so that the apparatus, which is moved from room to room, can pick up the voices. A teacher writing on a blackboard must be sure to pronounce what she writes, and to explain diagrams. Alan, unable to get recognition by raising his hand, just interrupts by phone to recite. It's all rather distracting, but at least Alan will be able to take his final exams, graduate, and go on to use his scholarship...
...return, says Dr. Hamlin, is to "maintain the look of life in the face of death." And at frightful cost in both money and emotion. The patient's family, says Harvard's Dr. Robert S. Schwab, suffers cruelly and may have to pay $250 a day for apparatus which is merely sending blood through an organism that is otherwise dead. "When," he asks, "do you pull the plug out and make this expensive equipment available to someone who might live...
...totalitarian administration that has steadily tightened its grip on all phases of government and life. Chairman Mao Tse-tung's chilling philosophy is that "all political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." The gun that ensures his control is held by the Chinese Communist Party apparatus, whose 19 million members make up the largest of all national Communist parties. At its apex perch Mao and his top comrades in a seven-member Politburo Standing Committee; beneath them are a twelve-member Politburo, then 94 Central Committeemen. From there the party descends into tens of thousands...