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Whitla and Verba said that details of the survey remain to be worked out, but that it should take place sometime just before reading period The late date. Verba said, is intended to make the results as current as possi- ble. The questionnaires will probably be mailed to all undergraduates...
...last week, the Pentagon's top weapons man believes it is perilously close to becoming a reality. Richard DeLauer, chief of research and engineering for the Defense Department, predicts that the Soviet Union may be ready to put into orbit as early as next year laser weapons capa ble of destroying U.S. spy and communications satellites. By 1990, he expects the Soviets to have "a large, permanent, manned, orbital space complex capable of effectively attacking ground, sea and air targets from space." DeLauer's views were inadvertently leaked when Republican Congressman Ken Kramer of Colorado, thinking a hearing...
...Escape Artist, starring Ryan O'Neal's 16-year-old son Griffin; and One from the Heart. By January, Zoetrope had some 500 employees and a $600,000-a-week payroll. Inevitably, Coppola's Olympian disregard for the bottom line led to deep financial trou ble. Last spring, Hammett, which had endured a dozen rewrites on its way to filming, was shut down before completion...
India clearly is determined to remain on good terms with the U.S.S.R. - for compelling economic reasons. New Delhi's trade with Moscow is expected to dou ble in the next five years, reaching $12.9 billion by 1985, making the Soviet Union India's biggest trading partner. The Soviets last May sold arms to India worth $1.6 billion, under financing conditions that were much more favorable than those offered by any other country. Last week Brezhnev agreed to supply India with the 2.5 million tons of crude oil it desperately needs next year to help compensate...
...reason for this is largely historical. Europeans, intoxicated with the cult of the Noble Savage, got interested in Hawaii through the Pacific explorers of the 18th century. Large quantities of porta ble Hawaiian artifacts went back on the boats to Europe, where they remain in the British Museum and other collections from Ireland to Germany. European collectors also gathered most of the paintings and drawings of real historical significance that whites made of Hawaii. (How much clearer our sense of English cultural attitudes to the Hawaiians would be, for instance, if the show had borrowed Johann Zoffany's ambitious...