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...much of the time Taylor sings about himself, and most of his fans feel instinctively that the anguished outlines of his private life???as well as those of his two brothers, Livingston, 20, and Alex, 23, and his sister Kate, 21, all now launched on singing careers?could be their own. The four singing Taylors, in fact, run some risk of becoming a sort of One Man's Family of rock...
...inmates would do far better outside prison. President Johnson's crime commission advocated a far greater shift to "community-based corrections" in which prisons would be a last resort, preceded by many interim options designed to keep a man as close as possible to his family, job and normal life???not caged and losing all self-reliance...
...navigational gyroscopes and accelerometers?to a similar platform in the lunar lander. These last-minute maneuvers were vital to a successful return to earth. Apollo 13 could now be navigated from the lunar module, and the command module was assured of enough spare power for six hours of working life???more than enough time for the astronauts to re-enter the atmosphere and splash down in the ocean...
...shocking indictment of the auto industry, engineering groups, governmental agencies and traffic-safety organizations for failing to make automobiles more "crash-worthy." Written by an unknown 31-year-old, the book did not make much of an impression at first. But G.M.'s investigation into Nader's life???and the public apology to him by the president of the company?made Nader famous overnight...
...absurd. Pressagents and windup plastic starlets are as much a part of movies as acetate; in one way or another, they always will be. And no matter how actors and actresses play themselves down, their films play them up. Movies are wide-screened, stereophonic and 30 times larger than life???so are actors. What is important is that many of the young actors can separate the reflected face on the screen from the original in the mirror...