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...some respects, excels it in others. At Italy's forward-driving Fiat, computers design engine parts and direct machine tools; Fiat intends to double daily auto production within three years. At Hamburg's Willy Schlieker shipyards, a slender beam of light moves along the lines of a blueprint and automatically directs acetylene torches that slice through thick slabs of steel like butter. And the Europeans are spending freely for more automation. The Common Market Six are plowing back an average 15% of their gross national products into fixed capital investment...
Ionesco builds to a simple, visual metaphor. Sometimes he becomes too involved in his blueprint and loses sight of the overall structure (as in The New Tenant). The same is true of Rhinoceros, but the brilliance of the plan itself is staggering. In The Chairs, finally, production outline, technique, and final product are equally brilliant...
...matter and had annually cut its appropriations to the marrow-quickly gave the Administration the $207 million it requested for the revitalized program. In the Pentagon, the new Office of Civil Defense civilian staff was beefed up by engineers and technicians from the armed forces, and a vast new blueprint for safeguarding the U.S. public is being drawn up. Assistant Defense Secretary Steuart Pittman, 42, an ex-marine who was appointed chief of OCD, set the goals for the first phase: "It's an opportunity for people to take part in a vital defense program, to demonstrate the will...
Such solutions were only in the exploratory stage, but they were the first traces of a new blueprint that might enable U.S. airlines to adapt to the harsh economic realities...
...argues balding Sam Rosenfeld, 40, veteran chemistry teacher at Hewlett (N.Y.) High School. This week he published a 188-page blueprint titled 30 Days To A Higher I.Q. For Your Child (Crown; $2.95), which consists of more than 700 problems and puzzles in the pattern of I.Q. tests. They will not make him brighter. But because "a poor showing on an I.Q. test can ruin your child's educational progress-perhaps forever," says Rosenfeld. "it is proper, even urgent that all children be taught how to take these tests...