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...demands of tourists will almost certainly continue to outstrip the facilities. Says Yosemite Superintendent John Davis: "Our problem is to find out how we can handle visitors without destroying the only things they came to enjoy." Among the proposals that the service is gingerly considering for the most seriously overcrowded parklands: banning autos and shortening permissible visiting time from the present seven- or 14-day limits to as little as three days...
...even old. The New York Philharmonic, for example, was founded in 1842, is 40 years older than the Berlin Philharmonic; the St. Louis Symphony (1885) predates both Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra and the London Symphony. Indeed, by most any yardstick, U.S. orchestras outstrip their counterparts on the Continent. Last season the Vienna Philharmonic performed 50 concerts and the London Symphony 32, while the Philadelphia Orchestra played 179 and the Boston Symphony 206. Of the world's 2,000 orchestras, the U.S. claims 1,401, including 25 that rank as major. France, by contrast, has only two professional symphony...
...Bureau Federation, largest and most influential U.S. farm organization, Shuman has almost invariably been ignored in Washington, where his call for a return to a free market in farm products is viewed as an invitation to chaos. Times are changing. Today, as the world's population threatens to outstrip its ability to pro duce food, many experts predict that Washington will ultimately have to stimulate rather than stifle the U.S. farmer's herculean productivity...
...must now assume its share of responsibility; this should only please the U.S., for, the implication was clear, things were just getting too much for the Americans. "Whatever America's wealth, its power, its good intentions, the multiplicity and complexity of the problems are such that henceforth they outstrip, perhaps dangerously, its means and capacity...
...Request to Uncle John. Arriving at the Redstone airfield, she got in a few plugs for her husband's space record: "Since 1958 one of Lyndon's most intense interests has been space. It would make him mad to see anyone outstrip us. He was co-author of the space bill in the Senate...