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...offensive, North Vietnamese tanks and trucks relied heavily on the POL (petroleum, oil and lubricants) that U.S. planes have been concentrating oir in their attacks. The final returns will not be in until the dry season returns to South Viet Nam in the fall and the North Vietnamese either launch a second round to their offensive or are visibly unable to do so. Hanoi's Central Committee and Politburo are known to have recently debated how they should react to the raids, though whatever decision they reached, if any, has not been revealed. Russia and China are continuing...
...Stockholm conference has approved a global system for the monitoring of pollution. Next month, as a forerunner of such a system, the U.S. plans to launch an experimental satellite, known as ERTS (for Earth Resources Technology Satellite). A stubby, 1,965-lb. package that resembles an overgrown moth, the satellite will be equipped with three television cameras, a multi-wave-length sensor and a data collection system that can relay environmental information from as many as 1,000 automatic monitoring stations on earth. If the test is successful, ERTS-type orbiters could be used to sound an alarm whenever there...
...Younger artists who might have grown powerful enough to launch a clear-cut Chicago-related school or movement have never stayed here long enough . . . to do so." But those who remained embraced their provincial situation with a kind of fierce pride in the city's hog-butcher materialism. Says Theodore Halkin: "I stay here because of the indifference, not in spite of it. I was never confused about my own idiosyncratic behavior. It's the only thing I've got, for God's sake. Why should I lose it in the turmoil of acceptance...
Coffin. Mauriac's antismoking campaign was inspired by Mayor Augustin Chauvet (who has not smoked in years) and gleefully promoted by ORTF, the state-run TV-radio network. To launch the crusade, a four-man team of psychologists and doctors held five days of meetings designed to wean the Mauriaquois from their smokes. At one gathering, Team Member Dr. Jean Pinet passed a miniature coffin around the audience. "Put your cigarettes in it," he exhorted, "or they'll put you in one." Other experts showed graphic films of the cancerous lungs of heavy smokers. The propaganda convinced many townspeople...
...criticism, Mauriac's antismoking crusade seems to have become a permanent fixture. The 143-member nonsmokers association has placed at the town's four entrances blue-and-white signs reading MAURIAC, THE FIRST CITY IN THE WORLD TO HAVE SAID "NO" TO TOBACCO. There are already plans afoot to launch a second antitobacco offensive this summer. Visitors, many of them smokers seeking a cure, are still pouring in and bolstering local businesses?including the tobacco shops...