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...Until last week, Connally had indicated that the U.S. intended to turn its chronic balance of payments deficit into a surplus-and was prepared to use its economic weapons, notably the 10% surtax on imports, for as long as it took to accomplish the goal. But at the IMF meeting, Connally dropped the requirement that the U.S. must be in the black before it would scrap the surtax. Instead, he said at a press conference, what was needed was "assurances that a formula and procedure is agreed on that will rectify" the U.S. imbalance. The U.S. will chuck the surcharge...
...uneasy relationship between technology and "fine art" has become a crucial problem for artists over the past 20 years. It involves a chronic split between two modes of perception. On the one hand, the leisurely, selective, linear images on the museum wall; on the other, the shifting, promiscuous, more or less disposable flood of information and patterns that makes up most of our everyday visual experience. Much recent "novelty" art, as diverse as Pop and kinetics, is acutely conscious of that disjuncture. Indeed, the split itself has become a form of subject matter, and few men have made...
...known to suffer from chronic tuberculosis and has not been seen since June. His death or incapacity might be more disruptive than the death of Mao himself. If Mao were to die, his successor, at least, would be preordained. But if the chosen successor himself were to die, there would inevitably be a scramble over who should move into his place...
...biochemists admit that their results may not be applicable to humans. They note that "feeding" the rats marijuana through tubes inserted directly into their stomachs is about one-sixth as effective as inhalation. On the other hand, the smallest chronic dosage given to any of the groups of rats was 30 times as high as that inhaled by heavy users of less potent, natural marijuana. Moreover, to duplicate the rat experiment with humans, the scientists estimated, a subject would have to puff his way through 50 joints of marijuana a day. Even so, the results of the experiment raise...
...farmers, the pleasure derived from the bumper crop is tempered by a wistful remembrance of things past. Its numbers much diminished by increasing mechanization on ever larger tracts, the farm bloc has lost much of its political clout in Washington and the nation. A chronic dissatisfaction afflicts small farmers, many of whom are forced off the land each year. Those who remain face persistent rises in production costs; last year, despite a record gross income of $56.6 billion, farmers wound up with total earnings of $15.7 billion-$500 million less than the year before...