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...smoke, drink or eat meat, and this discipline is reflected in their music. The group does not have the carnivorous overtones of Grand Funk Railroad or Alice Cooper, the smoky sense of the Doors or the Dead, or the alchoholic tendencies of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. They are truly an organic band. Their jazz-oriented music is, according to McLaughlin, the only rock music today to which one can meditate...
Hard Choices. Nixon has not yet shed his fondness of hyperbole. He contended that recent changes in world monetary and trade policies meant that "we stand today at a turning point in the history of our country-and the history of our planet." He still falls into clicheé. "Surveying the certainty of rapid change," he declared, "we can be like a fallen rider caught in the stirrups-or we can sit high in the saddle, the masters of change, directing it in a course that we choose...
...complaining strenuously that he could not make a living on wholesome entertainment, finally capitulated to the determined mothers, who insisted that they would support family films. Ehrlich agreed to a trial period beginning Dec. 1, in which he would show only G-rated movies. He leased the popular picture Planet of the Apes, as well as other family films, and even reduced the adult-admission price from $3 to $1.25. Then he waited for the deluge of upright parents and gladsome children...
...question Meadows had to answer was: How long can population and industrialization continue to grow on this finite planet? Unlike the doomsday ecologists who predict that man will drown in pollution or starve because of overpopulation, Meadows' system concludes that the depletion of nonrenewable resources will probably cause the end of the civilization enjoyed by today's contented consumer...
...studies but from the endorsement of 33 of the U.K.'s most distinguished scientists, including Biologist Sir Julian Huxley, Geneticist C.H. Waddington and Naturalist Peter Scott. Unrestricted industrial and population expansion, they warn, must lead to "the breakdown of society and of the life support systems on this planet-possibly by the end of this century and certainly within the lifetime of our children...