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...effect a change, Mansholt aims to reduce the number of European farmers within the next decade from 10 million to 5,000,000. He suggests that governments use financial incentives to induce old farmers to retire early and to voluntarily sell their farms to neighbors. That would help to meld tiny plots into bigger, more efficient "modern farm units...
There are no answers, and the final moments of the play suffer somewhat from a lack of resolution. But the crisp, authoritative acting of Norman Rose as Father and the admirable sets by Lester Polakov that meld the eerie with the ordinary, manage to make the play most satisfactorily unsettling...
...underline the differences among team members. But as soon as the squad is selected, the captain and top runners take the lead in smoothing over bitter rivalries; if the team is going to complete the season undefeated and win a few championships besides, diversity and internal competitiveness have to meld into a co-ordinated effort...
...Shrinker. The story beats with the low but constant pulse of loss and dislocation-qualities that are found in greater measure in The Balloon, a wistful meld of love story and art appreciation, and in The Dolt, which tells of a writer who cannot think of middles for his stories. The Dolt is also an oblique comment on the limits of conventional storytelling forms and a squint at the generation gap: the writer's son is an 8-ft.-tall hippie draped with a scrape woven out of 200 transistor radios, all turned on and tuned in to different...
...Dodd Amendment." The Senate code requires that members report official, quasi-official, political and quasi-political funds raised at testimonial dinners and other such occasions (the "Dodd amendment"). For the first time, the murky area where campaign funds, office and personal expenses meld would be clearly defined and strictly regulated. But general disclosure of every Senator's financial holdings (which would, insisted Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, make Senators "second-class citizens") was not suggested. The code does propose that Senators file copies of their income tax returns with the committee-though in fact the committee already has authority...