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...HYBRID POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. Carter is a Democrat who often talks and thinks like a Republican. The former Navy officer and nuclear engineer is an efficiency expert who values long-range planning and prides himself on his managerial ability ("I like to run things"). He also considers himself to be a fiscal conservative, a businessman who has had to meet a payroll,* and he pledges to produce a balanced budget by the end of his first term...
...early photograph in the catalogue of Callahan at work, pointing a bellows camera at the reedy edge of Lake Huron 36 years ago. His head is hidden under the cloth; he looks like a camera-headed wading bird, patiently dabbling for nourishment. The man and the machine are one hybrid...
Special Conditions. Sweden's hybrid economy rode out the recent worldwide recession rather well. The Swedish gross national product grew (albeit modestly), and unemployment was minimal (49,000, or 1.2% of the labor force, as of last May). The success of Stockholm's antirecession measures (like subsidizing production for stockpiles in order to keep employment high) was praised as an example of adroit fine tuning by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Yet the price Sweden paid for combatting unemployment this way was a sharp decline in productivity and a high rate of inflation (currently about...
...first electronic jazz bands to reach a mass rock audience. Bassist Stanley Clarke, 25, trained in the classics, combines breathtaking technical acrobatics with Coltrane-style solos. British-born John McLaughlin, 34, plays America's most supercharged guitar, pouring out majestic chords at breakneck tempos in a hybrid concoction of hard rock, Indian music and 32-bar blues. Weather Report, a five-man combo, mixes improvisitory jazz techniques with rhythmically powerful rock, and comes out sounding like a 120-piece orchestra. Hancock, 36, who once played a lyrical jazz piano, turned funky and three years ago issued a jazz-rock...
Major Movies. Almost simultaneously, scientists in the U.S. and Europe have finally overcome the problem by combining the information capacity of videotape with the low cost of phonograph records. Their electronic hybrid is called the video disc-a relatively inexpensive record that can be played through a TV set to show everything from major Hollywood movies to educational and cultural features. By the end of 1976, both RCA and a team composed of the N.V. Philips Co. in The Netherlands and MCA, the California entertainment conglomerate, plan to market their systems...