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...progress continues at the present rate, the Energy Research and Development Administration-which supplies most of the half-billion dollars now being spent annually for U.S. fusion research-predicts that by the late '70s or early '80s researchers in the U.S., U.S.S.R. and Japan could achieve "break even," or the point at which a machine produces as much power as it uses. Then researchers can concentrate on attaining ignition conditions: the time-temperature-density combinations at which the fusion reaction sustains itself. "By 1985," dreams Ronald Parker of M.I.T.'s Alcator fusion program, "we will have...
...stakes in the battle are titanic. For Detroit, each percentage-point gain in an auto company's share of the market translates into some half-billion dollars in added revenues. For the national economy, whether or not the automakers achieve the record 1977 sales that GM officials are predicting could go far toward determining if the recovery, now slowing, can pick up speed again next year...
...Oscars a year ago, Jack Haley, who was producing the awards show made it clear: "Look it, we have two hours of television time for which we're getting paid for Christ's sake, and 75% of the country is watching. By next week a half-billion people will have seen the show. A half-billion people buddy! You can't buy publicity like that!" It's dollars, baby, dollars. Movies fought off television in the fifties (Norma Shearer refused to buy one, none of the old hard-liners would have them in their houses) but now they've submitted...
...still the retreat continues. Last week. President Ford asked Congress for an additional half-billion dollars to prop up the Thieu and Lon Nol regimes in Vietnam and Cambodia; more money to visit more death from the skies upon innocent people. The conductor has changed, the orchestra is different, but the composer, Henry A. Kissinger '50, and the symphony of murder and repression are the same. Yet we sit quietly listening to the strains of death, and our voices are still...
...each case, there were large mechanical majorities against Western positions from Third World countries. These now number some 100 (out of a total U.N. membership of 138), ranging from tiny Caribbean islands to India with its half-billion population. In U.N. maneuvering, the Third World usually is backed by China and the Soviet bloc...