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Staying constantly in the news, Brown managed-with a flair for opportunism that infuriates his opponents -to hitch a ride on the assorted scandals of the Nixon Administration...
...this, says Rand, and the number of vehicle-miles traveled daily in Los Angeles will drop 30% by 1977. That reduction, together with Detroit's new emission-control equipment, will cut the volume of air pollutants to 500 tons per day. The hitch is, the report concedes, that Los Angeles still would not meet the air-quality standards...
...Soyuz's electrical power plant may have failed during the docking attempt. They also considered it possible that the ship's rookie commander, Air Force Lieut. Colonel Gennady Sarafanov, 32, and his engineer sidekick, Colonel Lev Demin, 48, the first grandfather in space, simply were unable to hitch up with their target. Whatever the cause, the shortened flight was an embarrassment to the Russians, who had advertised it as another warmup for next year's Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous. It was also a disappointment to American officials, who worry that Soviet space technology might...
...even here, there was no clear-cut division. Most of the members of the new Graduate School committees also belonged to the union. Conversely, imaginative Officials are as eager as Emerson could have wished to hitch their wagons to a star. Last spring, Quincy House was plastered with leaflets explaining CHUL candidates' positions on everything from women's rights to fighting imperialism...
...Brezhnev, grabbing for the Soviet leader's coattails. Ending one toast, for example, the President noted the great importance to peace of "the personal relations and the personal friendship that has been established by these meetings." But the Russians made it clear that they have no wish to hitch détente to Nixon's star, which will shine no longer than 1976, whatever the outcome of Watergate...