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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giveup some privacy." Similarly, this is a social cost of demands for more government services Says Jerome Bolin, president of Abraham Lincoln Insurance Co. in Spring field, Ill.: "As society becomes more complicated, it does become difficult to guard people's privacy. That is the price of progress. We can't quit doing business because somebody gets hurt...
Hideous Fence. One of the patrol's main tasks was to note the progress the East Germans were making in renovating the hideous fence system they have built along the frontier to stop their citizens from escaping to the West. At one location, about 30 soldiers -guarded by other troops, in standard East German fashion-were sinking concrete pilings, stretching mesh wiring and installing self-firing explosives. Apparently the old system, consisting of two parallel mesh-wire fences with a minefield in front of each, was not considered deadly enough. Thus "improvements" are being made, at a cost...
...imagination. When he arrives at his cramped Manhattan studio, he has only the vaguest notion of what he will create. He starts by working out movements using the dancers as a sculptor uses clay. He may throw out weeks of expensive rehearsal time if things do not progress properly. This year's Images, an innocent but enigmatic piece that evokes ancient rituals, did not jell. "I started out with a nice Schubert piece," Taylor recalls, "but after two weeks I saw I was getting nowhere. Three weeks before the opening, I said, 'Quick, I need some music...
...Steam, city railroad stations in the U.S. developed as the natural complement to the trains they served. They were convenient, spacious and well planned-temples to progress. In the Jet Age, by contrast, many airports are monuments of muddle, rapacity and discomfort. Despite $1.2 billion in federal aid to U.S. airports in the past ten years, the gap between ground technology and flight technology is vast, and apparently widening...
Since it breezed through Congress in 1970, the Clean Air Act has significantly improved the atmosphere Americans must breathe. Sulfur dioxide levels are down by 30% and sooty particles by 33%. Cars, too, are less polluting as Detroit struggles to meet tough emissions standards. Yet for all the progress, air quality in most major U.S. cities and industrial regions is still below the goals set seven years ago. Now a drive to clear the air has set off the fiercest environmental fight in years...