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...harshest attack yet on the new unions, and implied a dangerous drift toward lawlessness that needed rectifying. Significantly, the TASS report was broadcast by Radio Moscow, but did not appear in Soviet newspapers, suggesting it was intended for Poland and the West rather than domestic consumption...
...example, displayed buses, fire engines and light aluminum trucks, but it received no orders. Said Burt Stern, Grumman's senior vice president: "We found little overt interest in our products. We know it takes time, and we hope that some of the information we gave out will drift back into the right places. Maybe something will happen from there." Still, Chinese curiosity about American products was strong. Stacks of product brochures vanished in minutes. General Electric alone distributed 5½ tons of literature during the 13-day show...
...scientists prefer another explanation, an all-encompassing view of the earth known as the theory of plate tectonics. It holds that the planet's surface consists of a dozen or so restless plates, each about 70 miles thick. Their movements explain volcanoes, the rise of mountains and the drift of continents. They account for quakes as well, most of which seem to occur where the great plates meet-at the so-called Ring of Fire, for instance, the tremor-and volcano-prone region that rims the Pacific Ocean and outlines the Pacific plate...
...Voyager 1 sped off last week, casting over-the-shoulder cinematic looks back at Saturn, the incredible machine was headed for one last major assignment before going into deep space, where, after its power runs out, it will drift forever in silence. By measuring the flow of solar particles, Voyager will seek to determine where the sun's influence ends and that of the stars begins -in short, to establish the exact outer boundary of our solar system. Still, as exciting as such quests may seem, they come at a time of dwindling Government interest in space exploration...
...kids in each class or abolish the rent control board? Increasingly, conventional politics will become an irrelevant profession, for without voters agreeing to increases in the current levels of taxation, little new can be done. And so young men and women not yet wedded to the profession will gradually drift out of the political arena. That they will take with them the corrupt, unable to feed off the bones the tax-slashers leave behind them, is small solace...