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Population gain, of course, is no longer entirely a source of the civic booster's pride. It offends the ecological sensibility. Yet it remains crucial to underdeveloped regions such as Appalachia and urban centers that watch their affluent whites desert to suburbs, eroding the tax base and more simply the fund of human beings on whom congressional representation and the apportionment of federal funds depend. More people to get more money to care for more people. The Malthusian Catch...
Last Is First. Wally Hickel. Golden Gloves champ in Kansas, self-made millionaire and first Republican Governor of Alaska, came to Washington with the reputation of a truculent and provincial booster, about as salubrious as an enzyme detergent. Conservationists winced at what became known as "Hickelisms." There is not much point, he said then, in "conservation for conservation's sake." Or: "If you set water pollution standards too high, you might hinder industrial development." When he became the last member of the Cabinet to gain confirmation, Nixon said heartily: "The last shall be first as far as this Administration...
Died. Gilbert Seldes, 77. author, critic and longtime booster of the popular arts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1924 Seldes stirred a sensation with his The Seven Lively Arts, in which he argued that Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, jazz, the circus and burlesque had it all over the Barrymores, the Metropolitan Opera or the works of Cecil B. DeMille. Indeed, he made a case that Krazy Kat, the comic strip, was the most satisfactory work of art then produced in America-all of which enraged serious critics of the day and titillated Seldes' many fans...
...stage, a four-legged vehicle vaguely resembling the LM's descent stage, remained behind and continued to take temperature and radiation readings. What made the blast-off procedure so important was that Russian designers-probably because of severe weight restrictions made necessary by the limited thrust of their booster rocket-had apparently not built into the spacecraft any capability for mid-course corrections. Thus, had the returning spacecraft been on a course that brought it back into the earth's atmosphere at the wrong angle, the Russian controllers would not have been able to save it by changing...
...vaccination are lower than those produced by the natural disease, Veronelli is doubtful about long-term protection from the vaccines. Only periodic blood testing of the young recipients will tell. In the meantime, Veronelli urges continued research efforts to develop a killed-virus rubella vaccine, which would provide safe booster protection even in early pregnancy...