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...action, Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann called it "a brutal worsening of the situation." The French newspaper Le Monde said that the Nixon speech, like others made by the President on the war, was "unreal-it is not an ocean which separates the California coast from Indochina but a bottomless political and cultural trench." Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, offering a rare criticism of the U.S., called the blockade "not a wise move," although he sympathized with Nixon's aims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Nixon at the Brink over Viet Nam | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...hours campaigning in each place. I see the South taken for granted as Wallace moves into the South of the North--wooing the hardhat, the migrated hill-billy, the ethnic angry at busing. Under Webster's picture at Fanueil Hall, Wallace takes aim at his favorite targets: the apparently bottomless pit of taxing and spending, taxing and spending; the phony slickness of television, "kowtowing to the exotic and the noisemakers;" the liberals who have gotten us in the no-win war in Vietnam and sent "pointy-heads" to make chaos in our schools. But he can still conclude: "We have...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: The Wallace Appeal: Primary Impressions | 5/16/1972 | See Source »

Scientists point out that while water covers 70% of the earth's surface, it is a covering only, quite thin when compared with the bulk of the globe as a whole. It cannot be treated as a bottomless sewer, capable of absorbing any amount of pollution. In fact, says Piccard, "Phytoplankton, the primitive plant life that generates most of the earth's oxygen, is surface matter. It absorbs dirt and acts as a sort of pollution filter. Thus all you need to knock out is the surface phytoplankton, and the entire marine life cycle is fatally disrupted." That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Dying Oceans, Poisoned Seas | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

...they exist now, are a failure. I do feel that more money should be made available for experiments in that area. I've heardsome good leads on it, but nothing definite. In the meantime, I think it's imperative that the government stop throwing its money down a bottomless hole the way it's doing now," Herrnstein added...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: Herrnstein in 'The Atlantic' Predicts American Meritocracy | 9/24/1971 | See Source »

...they exist now, are a failure. I do feel that more money should be made available for experiments in that area. I've heard some good leads on it, but nothing definite. In the meantime, I think it's imperative that the government stop throwing its money down a bottomless hole the way it's doing now," Herrnstein added...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: Herrnstein in 'The Atlantic' Predicts American Meritocracy | 9/22/1971 | See Source »

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