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Four months ago, as part of his crusade against smog, Abe Ribicoff, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, served the auto industry with a blunt ultimatum: unless the auto manufacturers agreed to install blow-by* anti-pollution devices on all 1964 models voluntarily, the Administration would ask Congress to compel them to do so. Last week the automakers went Ribicoff one better, decided to make blow-by devices standard equipment on all their 1963 cars and light trucks...
...earned him sips of water and ten small, banana-flavored pellets, which were delivered mechanically when he pushed the proper levers. But as the capsule approached Australia, the monitor station at Muchea on the west coast noted that it was not maintaining its proper attitude. Instead of pointing its blunt forward end steadily 34 degrees above the horizontal, it was veering erratically. The stations at Woomera, in south-central Australia, and at Hawaii, confirmed Muchea's report. Apparently one of the hydrogen-peroxide jets that controlled the capsule's attitude in space had failed to close...
Kurosawa's Shakespeare inevitably-and fortunately-involves more Kurosawa than Shakespeare. With blunt and vital irreverence the director has translated Shakespeare's words into Japanese images, Shakespeare's lords into Japanese barons. Even in Shakespeare's plot, Kurosawa has condensed detail, juggled scenes, chucked the sentimental excrescences-among them, thank heaven, the soap-operatic murder of poor little Baby Macduff. Kurosawa's intention is plainly to hack off the Gothic foliage of Shakespeare's fancy and compress his tale into that traditional form of Japanese theater known as noh. As in those vast dance...
...blunt, five-page decision issued yesterday, Superior Court Judge Lewis Goldberg decreed the novel "obscene, indecent, and impure." The Judge's decision came six weeks after the hearings in which the lawyer for Henry Miller and Grove Press, Mr. Ephraim London, had tried to show that the book was not obscene...
...Koening Lois. "People don't pay attention to advertising. The trouble is that a lot of agency people have the idea that the public is a bunch of clods-and they write ads accordingly." Howard Gossage, whose Weiner & Gossage spread the word about Irish whisky, is even more blunt: "I don't know a first-class brain in this business who has any respect for it. Advertising is America's only native, original art form. It's the biggest, most eclectic and the lousiest...