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...assisted entry from the University of Wisconsin's Stout campus. Even with some donated parts, the exotic power plant modestly housed in a blue Dodge Omni body cost $25,000 in cash. Student Steve Mann insists that the car would be "as cheap as or cheaper" than any current production model to massproduce. Mann is young and tousle-headed. But with poise beyond his years he points out that if society were to switch from petroleum-based fuels to hydrogen, fuel would cost the consumer only about 180 a gal. in gasoline equivalent. "But it'll take...
...biggest beneficiary of the current political mood of pessimism, however, is Senator Edward M. Kennedy. The TIME poll of 1,049 people shows him to be the overwhelming choice for his own party's nomination. More than twice as many Democrats (62%) would prefer to see Kennedy as their party's nominee than Carter (24%). Nearly two-thirds of all those surveyed, Republicans as well as Democrats, felt Kennedy was "acceptable," and only one in three felt he was too liberal. While President Carter would lose to Ronald Reagan, according to the poll, and barely beat Connally, Kennedy...
...typical first day in America for the dispossessed Indochinese, who are now flowing into the country at the rate of 12,000 a month. So far, the U.S. has taken in some 50,000 boat people and other refugees from the current upheaval, the highest total by far of any Western host country. New arrivals, who tend to cluster in California and the Gulf Coast region of Texas, are given free English lessons and job training, and access to Medicaid and welfare. Nine major voluntary agencies, including the U.S. Catholic Conference and the Protestant Church World Service, match arrivals with...
...astonishing. The Israelis actually seem to think they are close to giving a knockout blow to the Palestine Liberation Organization. But if anything, P.L.O. morale is higher than before. Their strength has not even been touched." Since the latest wave of Israeli attacks coincided with the current diplomatic offensive of the P.L.O., some Western observers have concluded that Israel's real motive in Lebanon is a devious one: to make it impossible for P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat to pursue a moderate course, in opposition to more radical colleagues, and thereby to destroy any chance of a rapprochement between...
Director Jerry Schatzberg has transferred television production techniques to the big screen in an attempt to reinforce the film's relation to current events like the Draft Kennedy movement. The effect is a cheap look for the film. A national convention scene looks like a Mets game, with an embarrassing sea of empty seats in the background. There is little location shooting, especially in Washington where the opportunities are abundant, which saps whatever realism Schatzberg managed to achieve with his spare direction...