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Hempstead, N.Y., thinks that it can solve its water problems by desalting sea water with heat produced by burning rubbish in a "clean" incinerator, while Bergen County, N.J., plans to use its garbage to heat a community sports center. New York City's commissioner of air-pollution control, Austin Heller, reckons that if air-pollution could be prevented, the city could generate 25% to 50% of all the electricity it needs with garbage-fueled furnaces, thus possibly paying part of the cost of collection. After a tour of Europe, where garbage technology is years ahead of the U.S., three...
...last January's Apollo disaster, North American Aviation Inc. last week did some private scolding within its own corporate offices. Chief victim was Harrison A. ("Stormy") Storms Jr., 51, who was replaced as head of the company's Apollo-building space division by Vice President William B. Bergen, 52, former president of the Martin Co. and a North American newcomer. After the front-office shakeup, North American President J. Leland Atwood, testifying before the Senate space committee, expressed confidence that "we can effectively accomplish the lunar mission in this decade...
...story moves at the beat of a beer-garden band. Sixteen years after the war, in the village of Rheine-Bergen, six veterans of a Nazi machine-gun squad face the necessity of killing a brother in arms for the second time. Their victim is Michael Meiners, left for dead on the Eastern front while the other squad members deserted before the advancing Russians. Meiners' reappearance menaces the peace of men who have deliberately paved over the past, and his murder is promptly arranged. In case any reader has missed the point, Author Kirst puts it on the tongue...
...left alone"-"How would you like it if the Chinese had a gunboat on the Mississippi?" Yet Director Wise takes care to make his lecture entertaining. He shrewdly decorates his picture with a bloody wonderful battle sequence, some splendid Taiwan shorescapes, a simperingly pretty leading lady (Candice Bergen), Not to overlook McQueen, a leading man who turns in the sharpest performance of his career. In a picture full of paper tigers, he exudes a none too subtle effluence of tomcat...
...always so. John Paul Jones was in command of his own ship at 21, and Pitt the Younger was Prime Minister of England at 24. But complex technologies and lengthy professional studies have forced young men to play the waiting game. Also, they have lost what Lexicographer Bergen Evans notes was "the fastest path of advancement-dead men's shoes." In Europe and Asia, the old still hold sway. In the heart of Europe, De Gaulle is in full command at 75, and it is unlikely that Germany would defy ex-Chancellor Adenauer...