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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). In the first of a two-part program, Pierre Boulez, who is slated to be music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1971, is shown rehearsing and conducting Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire...
...North Viet Nam's Nguyen Thanh Le loftily declared that rising American opposition to the war at home, combined with what he described as a near mutiny among U.S. troops in Viet Nam (see following story), would compel Nixon to accept the N.L.F.'s ten-point peace program. A pivotal point calls for unilateral U.S. withdrawal...
Satellites and Field Scouts. Nine years ago, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations launched a program to check locust "plagues." Weather satellites and air spotters began to track locust concentrations and swarms. A system of field scouts was set up in 42 countries to report locust whereabouts. The Anti-Locust Research Center, established in London in 1921, coordinates this information and forecasts locusts' flight direction. Local governments dispatch spray planes to meet the hordes or treat breeding areas...
...locust's eggs must absorb their weight in water to hatch. Thus the FAO cautioned against concluding that the locust had simply dropped out of the picture. "He is still a global menace in a trough of inactivity," said Paul G. Hoffman, the U.N.'s development program administrator...
Weary of political pragmatism, Lowi prescribes a return to idealism. That idealism is at times Procrustean and not easy to put into practice, but all of it is refreshing to hear. His program calls not for less central government but for more -and this time with teeth. He would establish a senior civil service group, for example, composed of generalists with ties to no single agency, who would be responsible for providing a "proper centralization of a democratic administrative process." Sloppily written laws, he feels, have been much to blame for the failure of government. Accordingly, he would strengthen congressional...