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Advocate poetry seems dedicated, for the most part, to a willful and unnecessary obscurity. A poet should only make demands on his reader for essential reasons, and he must offer something substantial for the time and energy that explication requires. Bob Grenier is a better translator than original poet. I...
Bucky sees no reason why mankind should not utilize "the three-quarters of the world that is water." He has projected service stations anchored to the sea bottom for submarines to nestle up to. "It is well known that below 40 feet, turbulence is manageable." he says. He proposes that...
One advantage of a government, Chayes says, is in the deadlines an official faces. "In the academic life, you can't dispose of a problem until it's done. Here, you don't have to worry. The deadline comes and the problem is gone." Yet these reliefs are short-lived...
What caused the death of Thresher? To find an answer, Admiral Anderson ordered the bathyscaph Trieste from the West Coast to scan the depths and convened a 5-man board of inquiry. Perhaps the most likely theory is that a fitting gave way under immense pressure, water blasted through with...
Speed Line Chrome. The bucket seat is everywhere; Cadillac's special Eldorado achieves the ultimate in conspicuous consumption of space by putting buckets in the back, thereby sacrificing an extra passenger for the bucket's thronelike comfort. Racing-style stick shifts sprout from car floors, even when they...