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...This could be very significant," Train told the Proxmire subcommittee, "because observations indicate the water vapor content of the stratosphere has already increased about 50% over the last five years." A water-vapor blanket, Train contends, could lead to greater ground-level heat and hamper the formation of ozone that shields the earth from the sun's ultraviolet rays...
There is often a disconcerting inexactness about today's rhetoric of dissent. To denounce the Establishment in blanket terms makes little sense in a society composed of several establishments, each with its own ideology and set of mores-many of them surprisingly competitive. "Power to the people" is an admirable democratic slogan-except that, as used presently, what it really seems to mean is power to the leftist radicals who seek to control any revolution in America. It is verbal overkill to describe every mild demurral by whites against the most bluntly radical of black-militant demands as nothing...
Hospitals that once had horrendous difficulties in washing and sterilizing mountains of linen and equipment now have that problem largely solved. They use disposable supplies, which reduce the risk of infections spreading within the hospital: presterilized bed pads, sheets, pillowcases, blanket covers, examination gowns, surgical masks and drapes, oxygen canopies, water carafes, dishes and drinking cups, transfusion tubing and fittings, thermometers, and perhaps most important of all, hypodermic syringes and needles. But the hospitals, as well as doctors in their private offices, are finding that they have replaced one problem with another: how to dispose of the disposables...
...elections by Democrat Theodore C. Sorensen, campaigning for the U.S. Senate from New York, who last week announced his own plan for "universal health insurance." Apart from such standpatters as the A.M.A. and its arch-conservative Republican allies, there is a growing consensus that some national insurance blanket must be thrown over the ailing body of health care...
...least. Some analysts saw a connection between the dismissals and the Politburo illnesses, especially since some of those fired are associated with Shelepin and all come under Sus-lov's authority. In a biting analogy, British Sovietologist Leopold Labedz observed that "the dogs are fighting under a blanket, but all we can see is the blanket moving. We don't know which dog has his teeth in which other dog." Other specialists point out that such clean sweeps of party and government agencies in the post-Stalin era have always taken place after, not before a change...