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Alarmists claim that saving the U.S. environment requires "zero population growth," but last week the Government's chief demographer countered with a telling argument of his own. The key to pollution, said the Census Bureau's Conrad Taeuber, is "changing standards and habits," not excess people. While the U.S. population rose 13% in the 1960s, for example, national consumption of goods and services jumped 60%, thus loading the landscape with more and more beer cans, junked autos and other garbage. Even if "Z.P.G." were achieved overnight, said Taeuber, the U.S. population would not stabilize until the year...
Navy, whose leading scorer 6' 2" senior Jack Conrad is averaging 19 points a contest, plays a controlled, disciplined game that propelled them to a 23-point victory over a weak Washington and Lee squad Wednesday night. Navy has the same record, 6-8, that Harvard has, and plays the pattern type of offense that has given Harvard teams trouble in the past...
...Adventure of Sail 1520-1914 by Captain Donald Macintyre, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N. 256 pages. Random House. $25. Far more sea-and eyeworthy than the usual splendiferous, spanker-sized boat book, in part because it offers longish selections from the writings of Conrad, James Cook, Lord Nelson, Richard Dana, George Anson and others. More notable, though, is the broad range of paintings and illustrations, and the fact that whoever did the captions miraculously knew a lot about things like rigging-and caption writing...
Michael York, however, should hold our strongest interest, for his performance, while less glossy than Lansbury's, correlates both the brutality and humor of the film's concerns. As Conrad (a latter-day Hitler?), he bodes forth a concept of sex as power appropriate to a new age of barbarism. His barbarism is intellectual: he kills, he fornicates, but he also reasons...
There are many fine touches: the Fellini-esque Bavarian music-makers who pop up on hillsides and in taverns, the bloated Wagnerian singers who rush at each other on stage as Conrad's eye seeks his victims in the opera balcony, the gaudy wedding cake of a hunting-lodge decked out for the Countess's garden party. And, finally, a surprise ending throws the ultimate psychological confusion into a film which plays bewitching games with violence...