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Also, consumer goods are still drab, often scarce and fantastically expensive (a compact car sells for about $8,000). The Soviet Union's estimated $570 billion G.N.P. is roughly half that of the U.S., yet the nation spends fully as much on defense and capital investment as the U.S. does. Inevitably, the pinch has come on consumption. Such goods as fully automatic washing machines are not made in the U.S.S.R. at all, and refrigerators and other household items are often so deficient in style and quality that workers see little point in laboring hard to get the money...
...Another system, still being developed, would cope with the nitrogen oxides. * GM's compact Vega may offer a rotary engine as an option on 1975 models. Farther in the future are the steam engine, the gas turbine, the Stirling engine and, perhaps, a battery-powered electric...
...household word and not likely to become one. He was one of the most demanding philosophers of the 20th century, a man who spent most of his life thinking and writing about what he concluded could not be thought or written about. His style was forbiddingly compact and aphoristic. In addition, there were his disconcerting remarks about his work being mainly a cleaning of the intellectual stables, and his ironic suggestion that what he had not written about was most valuable...
...train that morning he had tried to read the new, compact, modern Mail-Express-Mirror, edited by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, but had soon turned to his customary European Times. The headlines, on this sunny day in 1984, were depressingly familiar. Europe's trade gap was still widening (there was another warning from Brussels that Europe must "export or die"). Enoch Powell, a sprightly 72-year-old eccentric who lived in the South of France, had made a speech in Nice warning, yet again, that Europe would collapse unless something was done about the rising tide of Japanese immigration...
...transcript printed here does not add any dramatic new perspective to the controversy over First Amendment guarantees. It does, however, crystallize several important points in the debate--the need for more self-criticism by the press, the role of newspaper publishers and owners, the underlying compact between a reporter and his sources, the attitudinal differences between recent administrations toward the press. When The Crimson began planning its Centennial celebration last November, nobody was talking much about threats to the American press. Perhaps the ecstasy of 1971 lingered in the minds of journalists and legislators as they watched reporters and others...