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Shotguns Approved. Many papers go along with the businesslike rationale of the Detroit Free Press. "We're a family newspaper," says Bill O'Flaherty, the national ad manager, "and there's no point in losing our readership by giving them what they don't want." His yardstick...
Overruns and Cutbacks. The C-5A, at 728,000 Ibs. the world's largest aircraft, has been under intense scrutiny since a Pentagon cost analyst in January leaked reports of ballooning expenses. Rather grudgingly, the Air Force and other sources revealed that the procurement bill had climbed from an anticipated $3.5 billion for 115 of the planes to $4.4 billion for 120 of them. Congressional critics charge that the "overrun" resulted mostly from Lockheed's attempt to win the contract by making an unrealistically...
...Japan does not voluntarily hold down its shipments soon, the U.S. will move toward mandatory import controls. Protectionist sentiment is rising in Congress. Earlier this month, Wilbur Mills introduced a bill calling for textile import quotas, and it will get massive support. If the bill passes, it could set off a round of moves and countermoves restricting free trade...
They gather with the twilight in every city, swaggering under awnings and before the fluorescent lights of cafeteria windows. They like to bill themselves as "studs," but they are guys who swing from both sides of the bed. Around them swirls another kind of urban flotsam: maimed, embittered victims with out a prayer of sexual gratification or a hope of companionship. From these unpromising fragments, James Leo Herlihy wrote a lyric blues ballad disguised as a novel. The film adaptation of Midnight Cowboy may grant that ballad too much orchestration, but it preserves its essential compassion and humor...
Most Nonchalant. In Washington, D.C., where the film is also playing, the scandal has been federal and political rather than civic and general. Charging that it showed "open fornication" on the screen, Senator Everett Dirksen cited the film as yet another reason for supporting his bill to limit Supreme Court power in obscenity hearings. Had he seen the film himself? "Lord, no," the Senator rumbled. That, and six letters to the theaters, have been the sole Washington grumbles to date...