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This could be greatly increased because Russian experts profess a preference for U.S. technology, and they are fascinated by the prospect of dealing with powerful American corporations. Moscow is especially keen to buy U.S. oil-drilling and refining processes, chemical plants, automated machine tools, food-packing equipment, and road-building machinery. The Kremlin would like-and will probably get-help from American firms in setting up the long-delayed Kama heavy truck factory. Pittsburgh's Swindell-Dressier Co. has won a $10 million contract for designing the arc furnaces for the plant...
...show's actresses are seasoned by age, skill and valiance; Follies celebrates women who have learned to sift the grain of truth from the chaff of illusion, and the paths to its box office windows are now only half-beaten. What better evidence that the theater cannot profess a maturity that its audiences do not possess...
...wake of the Pentagon papers investigation, and others with political overtones, even such sober observers as Harvard's Vorenberg profess to see present-day grand juries as an equivalent to the congressional committees of the McCarthy '50s. Unless there is reform, such criticisms are likely to grow louder...
...Crime. Many of the estimated 70,000 American draft dodgers and deserters-concentrated mainly in Canada and Sweden-profess to share Frederick's feeling that amnesty proposals are irrelevant and even insulting. Indeed, they believe that there is a prevalent misconception in the U.S. that those who have escaped from military service are a sorry breed of men without a country, steeped in expatriate misery, who want only to be exonerated and allowed to return to their native land. Says Bob Anderson, 21, Frederick's roommate, who also deserted from the Air Force: "I don't think...
...Some do this daily, almost hourly, and yet talk about beauty in life and profess concern for justice and loveliness and peace!" he added...