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Perhaps because Lent is no longer so austere as it used to be, the European Catholic tradition of carnival time -a brief spasm of bacchanalian indulgence that ends abruptly on Ash Wednesday-has virtually died out in Italy, France and even in Southern Germany. Munich's once-orgiastic Fasching, for instance, has dwindled to a single parade and a few tame costume balls. One area where the annual urge to let it all hang out is as strong as ever is the Rhineland with its century-old tradition of blowing off steam as a form of political expression. Last...
...most of the Rhineland's larger towns and cities, carnival began gaining momentum in early January, as an occasional woman ventured out wearing a red or green fright wig. Then, on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday, normal life came to a halt, as Rhinelanders abandoned themselves to what they called "die fallen Tage " (the crazy days...
Dramas about male bonding have glutted the market recently No one connected with this adaptation of Darryl Ponicsan's novel can be accused of enormous originality. But there is an un pretentious realism in Towne's script, and Director Ash by handles his camera with a simplicity reminiscent of the way American directors treated lower-depths material in the '30s. Quaid plays dumb with canny appeal. Young, as a black for whom a noncom's career is a big step up, makes you feel his sense of risk when he stops going by the book...
...most welcome alchemy of all. Cottell claims that in a furnace a blend of three parts oil and one part water burns so much more cleanly and efficiently than ordinary oil that it can cut fuel consumption by at least 20% while producing almost no soot or ash. He also claims that road tests show that a car can run on 18% water and 82% gasoline, with such a low output of pollutants that the engine does not need the mileage-robbing emission-control devices required on new cars. Similar results are reported by University of Oklahoma Professor Walter Ewbank...
...Administration may deliberately deepen the deficit if the economy seems headed into a recession-though there is great debate between the White House and its critics over just what constitutes a recession. Nixon and Roy Ash, chief of the Office of Management and Budget, have said that the Administration is preparing a package of as yet unspecified "contingency spending plans" that would be used if the slump became long or deep. Meanwhile, Ash and other officials have been carefully leaking budget figures in advance to prepare the public and remove the sting of the first U.S. budget ever to exceed...