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Candor is as much a part of Edmund Muskie as his easy grin and his sincere visage. Last June-amazingly early by the coy calendar of most politicians -the Democratic Senator from Maine told an interviewer that "the idea of running for President is in a remote corner of my mind." Then Muskie casually listed two drawbacks: his own lack of familiarity and identification with some national issues and the fact that, as matters then stood, Senator Edward Kennedy could get the Democratic nomination in 1972 "for the asking...
Because of their grim warnings about man's environmental abuses, the once sheltered ecologists are turning into modern Jeremiahs. Who are they? In part, they are the descendants of yesterday's conservationists, who harried the U.S. into setting up national parks and wildlife sanctuaries. But there are significant differences. The old conservationists were nature lovers and esthetes who often seemed devoted to fencing off nature for themselves. Today's ecologists are scientists who know that all nature is interconnected and that any intervention has far-reaching effects. They are moved to action not only by considerations...
...Pied Piper. Part of the problem is political. Because the city straddles the state line, it has separate mayors in Texas and Arkansas, two district city councils and health departments. To fight rats effectively, both city governments obviously have to cooperate. But the Texas side of town has budgeted only $4,000 for rat control while Arkansas begrudges $1,500. Says Doyle Purifoy, in charge of the Arkansas program: "We've got the rats on the run." Presumably to Texas...
...federal program for Americans over 65. In Houston, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey's surgery team collected $202,959, and Dr. Denton A. Cooley's, $193,124. Here again the fees do not appear exorbitant. In all, 1,050 operations were performed, with 50 or more surgeons taking part. Complicated open-heart techniques, including the implantation of artificial heart valves and pacemakers, were involved. Even so, the average cost to Medicare for each operation was roughly $380-a modest figure. All the money, said DeBakey, went to Baylor College of Medicine, which pays the surgeons' salaries...
...staging-revolving globes, electronic music, atoms whirling on projection screens-deftly captures the sweep and playfulness of Shaw's vision in the early parts. As the play draws on, however, the production stretches a bit thin. By the time the curtain rises on the dancing children of the 320th century, in Part 5, it appears that evolution has led to a Swedish gym class in a grove of neon tubes...