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...Speed. Like a Grand Prix car, a 5.5-meter sailboat is a specialized piece of handiwork, designed for speed, not for family fun. The 5.5s range from 28 ft. to 35 ft. in length, must conform to a complicated formula that requires each "plus" (larger sail area) to be balanced by a "minus" (heavier weight). Built in the U.S., a 5.5-meter hull costs about $15,000; designer's fees, tank tests and sails boost the bill another $5,000 or more. Running before the wind, under an 800-sq.-ft. spinnaker, a 5.5-meter can skim along...
Yevtushenko and others have branded such attitudes "dogmatic." They claim there is room in the Soviet Union for both foreign art and literature and indiginous creativity that does not necessarily conform to the dictates of socialist realism. Their efforts have been occasionally successful, but the Party's policies towards literature continue to be dominated by political considerations. When Premier Khrushchev decided the publication of the startling novel One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch would be a wise political move, he made it. When it appeared the pressure for intellectual freedom engendered by the publication was growing...
...Lunatic Pattern. The shortcomings are partly rooted in vo-ed's history. Under laws going back to 1917, almost half of the total federal outlays for vocational education are channeled into agriculture and home economics. Since state and local officials conform to the rules so as to get as much federal money as possible, the result is a lunatic pattern. Last year 26% of all vo-ed funds went into agricultural training, although fulltime farm workers comprise only 6% of the nation's labor force...
...Jean Monnet, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, and many of the others, who germinated the Common Market, and it has been adopted as national policy by De Gaulle's France. The elaborate French plan sets production goals and controls for most of French industry, rewarding those who conform to the plan with government loans and tax breaks. Like Erhard, many men in the business establishment around the Continent are against such government interference-but they have more or less lost the battle. France's le Plan now is being widely copied throughout Europe...
Skinned & Reskinned. Most new buildings look as if they came off the same assembly line; architectural classics of a more individualistic age are being forced to conform. In San Francisco, the Home Mutual Savings Building, designed by Daniel Burnham and John W. Root in the tradition of the illustrious 19th century Chicago school of architecture, is now having its balanced grandeur shrouded by a curtain wall of glittery white porcelain enamel. "Worse than a desecration," growls Architect Nathaniel Owings of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. "It's a stupid misunderstanding of what the future...