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...total of 150,000 troops) available to be dispatched round the world, and, of course, there remain all the other armed services of the nation to be drawn ons But a pair of widely separated major confrontations-a Soviet threat to the Persian Gulf oilfields, say, and a blowup in Korea-would pose a real problem. General John A. Wickham, the Army Chief of Staff, fears that U.S. commitments "probably exceed the force capabilities...
...Logica electronic sewing machine-are concentrated by Curator Kathryn Hiesinger in a central space, a circle of dramatic display columns that Nelson calls Stonehenge. Models of Explorer I and a 1976 Satcom satellite hover above. Along the way to the shrine, like altars lining a processional, are huge blowup portraits of the most influential designers of the age. There is Charles Eames, whose chairs, toys, films, buildings and exhibits, produced with his wife and partner, Ray Kaiser Eames, made good design American. There is the Dane Arne Jacobsen, whose sleek furniture and tableware for a while convinced the world that...
...rocket either exploded or caught fire when its fuel tank, containing some 270 tons of kerosene and liquid oxygen, suddenly ignited and turned the launching pad into a flaming ball. In such emergencies, the capsule, its crew snugly strapped inside, blasts away from the pad within milliseconds after the blowup. The rocket tip arcs up to an altitude of several thousand feet, where the capsule then rolls out of its casing (much like a tennis ball out of a tin can) and parachutes safely back to earth...
...Perhaps the manner of the movie's making says more about the quality of undergraduate ambitions these days than the film's rather conventional view of its subject admits. For Privileged, written with assurance, acted with panache and technically quite smooth and knowing (despite a murky blowup from 16 mm to 35 mm), is, of all things, a student film. It was conceived, created and hustled into the world's film markets by a cooperative of Oxonians in the same age bracket, 20 to 27, as the students they have conspired to place on the screen...
...price rise seems out of the question, barring some blowup in the Middle East. But oilmen cannot afford to rule that out. The big fear is that the stalemated 27-month war between Iran and Iraq might suddenly spill over into a generalized Persian Gulf conflict, enveloping Saudi Arabia and other producers...