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Horovitz in an interview earlier this year with the CRIMSON described the story as a slow, logical drift to anarchy. Slow? It happens in a few days. Logical? The central character is never more than the most anonymous of symbols. Through a series of idylls in amusement parks and rock numbers by Crosby, Stills and Nash and Buffy St. Marie, the romance of politics and young love continues on its rocky road. What passes for dealing with issues is a confrontation in Telegraph Tower about the Crew Team, America, and the Movement...
...Navy, will design a major combat ship. The destroyers will be of a new, larger class to be used mainly for antisubmarine duty. In pursuit of the award, Litton spread word that, if it won, it planned to hire 2,000 additional black workers, who might otherwise drift to the ghettos of the North. Litton will also subcontract about 60% of the job to other firms. Some work may well go to Maine's Bath Iron Works Corp., which was Litton's major competitor for the award...
...forward sections and slim in the stern, she has been dubbed "the tadpole." Valiant's keel is smaller than the old Intrepid's, her trim tab larger. A Stephens innovation for 12-meters, the trim tab on the aft end of the keel helps to reduce drift to leeward and can be used as an auxiliary rudder in tight turns. Valiant's reverse transom rolls down more smoothly toward the waterline, reducing excess weight in hull and deck. As with Intrepid, Valiant's ten-man crew work their winches below deck, thereby lowering wind resistance...
Universities today are the focus of national attention. Campus disorders, attacks by Spiro Agnew, the peace movement, and the campaigns of men like Ronald Reagan are indications of just how much university activity is key to the political drift of America...
...what energy they develop comes in part from the question, "What do they do next?" At the end of Serpent, for example, comes a surprise ending (which I will not reveal because it does not take place). As the actors sing, "We were sailing along, on moonlight bay," they drift out into the now ever-so-slightly per-spiring audience and simply sit down with them and fade away...