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...started an even more awesome zoom climb, afterburners streaking yellow flame and turbofans thundering. "My God," said U.S. Test Pilot Bob Hoover, "I don't see how he can do it!" At 3,000 ft., Koslov began flattening his climb. The plane's needle nose pointed downward, then the craft went into an arrowhead plunge as the pilot struggled to regain control. The stress was too great. At 2,000 ft., the left wing ripped off first, followed by the tail and right wing. There was a flash of fire, and the plane fell apart. All six crewmen...
...ideologically committed to the freer markets of Phase III, but politically he is under intense fire. His economic chief, George Shultz, still defends a policy of casual controls and promises that price relief is just around the corner. He expects food prices to peak in early summer and ease downward for the rest of the year. But another Nixon adviser, Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, is urging tighter controls. Nixon may be tempted to impose a freeze before Congress forces...
...economy zips into the second quarter with production, profits and employment all rising, Wall Street continues to sink deeper into its private depression. Stock prices continue to drift downward; last week the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 931, off 121 points from its high of 1052 less than three months ago. Far more frightening to brokers, there are growing indications that a sizable slice of the public has been turned off stock investments. The latest New York Stock Exchange survey shows that in 1972-the very year in which the Dow Jones average finally cracked the magic 1000 barrier...
...disillusion about man's ability to transform either himself or his world. A Teilhard de Chardin might confidently view man's physical and spiritual evolution in the new scientific world as a limitless upward spiral, but Hitler and Hiroshima suggested that the spiral could also spin downward into new dimensions of evil...
What can result in WGBH's case is a downward spiral of activity. If the station is forced to cut back on its production of any national PBS programs, it will lose income and resources that will directly affect its local programming. Eventually, Rice contends, "We'd just disintegrate. Right now we're at a point where much of a somewhat fragile structure between public and private financing has been put together. But this peculiarly balanced economy of national and local programming could, with lack of funding, just fall apart...