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...submarines. It will concentrate much of its effort on learning to take on and eliminate this threat, partly by perfecting sensing devices and new weapons for anti-submarine warfare. It will also seek to increase its nuclear-powered force of attack submarines, now numbering more than 50, to something nearer...
...poorer states a bigger share. Many experts challenge this plan, insisting that it would be better to cut federal taxes and let the states do their own collecting. Says former Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, a onetime governor of North Carolina: "A plan like Heller's would come nearer to sapping the remaining initiative of the states than anything else I know of." In any case, no plan to redistribute or cut federal income taxes stands much chance of surviving so long as the war in Viet Nam lasts...
...tree shrew, can be mass bred in captivity, it will be as inexpensive as the rat as a laboratory animal. And it is much nearer to human beings on the evolutionary scale...
...Buddhism 16 months ago, did the editors appraise the little-known, shadowy figure who last week emerged-big. That earlier story, "Buddha on the Barricades," examined the faith and its activist-passivist syndrome and warned that it is a force to be reckoned with. With the reckoning now nearer at hand, Tri Quang became the cover this week...
...garden of light," she says. That, combined with her native love of calligraphy, led her to study sign lettering, and soon to neon itself. "Neon is made out of a clear, light material-like glass buildings. Transforming the cultural world into the world of the laboratory, it brings art nearer to science." For her just-opened show in Manhattan's Pace Gallery, Chryssa made a 10-ft.-sq. chamber, analyzing the letter A in neon and stainless steel through which people can walk. It is titled The Gates to Times Square, and is an actual journey through a symbol...