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Variety in view and routine is a relaxant. Ford now has an informal office just beyond the Oval Office. Unlike Nixon, this President frequently takes off his coat and works in shirtsleeves. His pipe is handy and in constant use. White House Physician William Lukash believes such little things reduce tedium and tension. Ford likes movies at night but sometimes flakes out. He fell asleep during a screening of The Sugarland Express but stayed the distance for Chinatown. There is an effort to introduce soothing potions of humor in the daily rituals. When Hollywood's gorgeous Candice Bergen...
Loewy's emphasis on design's commercial and industrial responsibilities is shared by Roger Tallon, 45, whose projects have included the striking new Mexico City subway system. "For me, design is a pipe that does not leak, a bottle top that closes and does not break," says Tallon. "If a designer is not considered an engineer, then this profession has no future." Among his current contracts are designs for new subways in Paris and digital watches...
Bumper Battle. The industry's credibility has not always been high when it comes to complaints about environmental controls. For example, Detroit long opposed use of the emission-reducing catalytic converter, a device fixed to the exhaust pipe underneath the car. These converters are installed in the 1975 models, and GM, for one, praises their virtues. With the converter, engines can be tuned up to give top fuel efficiency instead of being wastefully geared down to reduce emissions, as they had been for several years. The result, according to tests made by the Environmental Protection Agency: the new cars...
...creating suspense. The average whodunit (and the Orson Welles festival has its share of those) is almost by definition something you'd never want to see twice--or at least not until you'd forgotten it. But the first time around, anyway, such films may warrant taking out your pipe and putting on you deerstalker...
...mile train tunnel under the English Channel. Plans to link the two nations by "chunnel" had graced the drawing boards of imaginative engineers for nearly 200 years; French Engineer Albert Mathieu's 1802 design shows a coach-and-four trotting through a candlelit tube with ventilating pipes reaching above the waves. But whenever the 19th century pipe dream threatened to come true, Britain got skittish. A characteristically insular reaction came from Sir Garnet Wolseley who, as adjutant general of the British army, warned in 1882 that the tunnel "would be a constant inducement to the unscrupulous foreigner to make...