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...Government's dilemma is subtly symbolized by the position of SEC Chairman Ray Garrett. As a member of the Loan Board, his chief concern is to ensure that Lockheed survives until the Government is released from its commitment at the end of 1977. But as SEC chief, he would normally be expected to concentrate on seeing that the reporting rules are obeyed, whatever the damage to the company. Garrett's solution: he has disqualified himself from the SEC's deliberations as to what to do about Lockheed...
...those who have always wondered what it would feel like to be worked over by the Gestapo, French Essayist and Novelist Jean Raspail has concocted a reasonable facsimile. The Camp of the Saints shrewdly exploits a dilemma that the world may well face: the moment when the burgeoning Third World rises from misery and forces the West to share more of its resources. Apocalyptic fiction could come from this chilling premise, but Raspail, 50, is willing to settle for a harangue...
While the new treaty with men offers a tempting apple of political expediency, it also poses a dilemma: Will the NWPC make "an impact on the male power structure", as Farenthold claims it has, or will it be absorbed by the male status quo? "I depends on how seriously men take us, one delegate said. "It they think were important, they'll grab...
...There's no question that Allen's stock formula has hit home to a lot of losers and tickled a lot of losers-watchers, but when you get right down to it, it's a pretty thin joke. There are only so many laughs to the 98-pound weakling dilemma, whether it's set at muscle beach or Martinique. And it is where Allen scrapes the dregs of slapstick gags that he is at his weakest. When Boris Grushenko, "the young coward all St. Pete is talking about," fumbles through basic training like a moldy replay of Modern Times...
...week the Energy Research and Development Administration, created by Ford last October to map out the nation's route to alternate sources of power (TIME, April 14), published its first recommendations. The ERDA policy blueprint will not stir much hope for a quick solution to the complex energy dilemma. Concedes ERDA Deputy Administrator Robert Fri: "One message of the plan is that we're sorry, but there is no simple answer." The agency calls for stepped-up development of a wide range of new and existing energy technologies and resources. But up through the mid-1980s, the country...