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Electrodes. "O.K., let's go," says Mrs. Shriver, 44. The first film of the day is a Japanese import, The Daydream, a collage of sensual sounds and sadomasochistic fury. On the screen, a man hangs a girl from the ceiling by ropes, then cuts off her clothing with a knife. "I'm either out of touch with Oriental culture," says Mrs. Shriver, wife of an oil-company executive, "or there's something here that escapes me." In another scene, the man strokes the girl's private parts. Both are naked except for masks...
Ironically, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution best illustrates the kind of consultation envisioned by SR 85-here the President asked for and received "affirmative action." Overlooking this, many Senators have exaggerated the import of SR 85. Mr. Mansfield called the resolution "one of all-Senate concern which goes to the nature of the constitutional responsibilities of this body." intimating that only a breakdown in the Constitution could allow Vietnam to occur. In fact, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution fulfilled all the constitutional niceties. By expressing the sense of Congress, it eliminated the need for a declaration...
...that would make genocide an international crime. The proposal has been languishing in the Senate since 1950, hung up in part over doubts as to its constitutionality. - Announced, in a different vein, that he will not make any immediate changes in the nation's current policy on oil imports. A Cabinet task force had urged dropping import quotas, which are now assigned to each oil company, and instituting a system of protective tariffs instead. Such a change would have the effect of lowering domestic fuel prices. To the delight of the U.S. oil industry, Nixon said there must...
More than in most countries, urbanization has overwhelmed Japan. Only 20 years ago, 60% of the population was tied to the farm, and Japan still had to import rice; today, as a result of agricultural advances, only 18% of the Japanese people are needed to feed the country and produce a surplus. The dispossessed farmers cram the cities, and the cities have been woefully shortchanged. The "Tokaido Corridor," a slender, 366-mile coastal belt running along the Pacific from Tokyo to Kobe, was long celebrated for its beauty in misty wood-block prints and delicate, 17-syllable haiku. Today, with...
...employees together in "value analysis sessions," and has already discovered how to save $200,000 a year by trimming paper work. TWA set out to save $25 million in 1968, and since then has reduced its annual operating expenses by $54 million. The airline saved $450,000 in import taxes alone by switching to U.S.-made dinnerware...