Word: ralph
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...themselves-a chore that the American Civil Liberties Union urges them to give up entirely by declaring that all published material is protected by the First Amendment unless it creates a "clear and present danger" of antisocial conduct. The A.C.L.U. makes its point in the case of Publisher Ralph Ginzburg, who got a five-year rap for circulating the now defunct magazines Eros and Liaison and a so-called psychological study titled The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity. While Eros gets high marks from assorted literary eminences, the court is unlikely to be edified by Ginzburg...
...Starting Point. The moon business only begins with transportation. Martin Marietta has a $90,000 contract to create a drill to explore 10 ft. below the lunar surface, Westinghouse and Northrop more than $500,000 each for a 100-ft. drill. Ralph Stone & Co. of Los Angeles is spending $100,000 to develop vacuum containers to carry rock samples back to earth. Under an $88,000 contract, Martin is also making lunar tools, including a lightweight geological hammer, a hand lens and a scale to weigh rocks in the light gravity. Westinghouse is spending $4,800,000 to make tiny...
...compositions, uses other instruments sparingly. In Evolution, a French horn appears briefly as well as a voice (Phyllis Curtin's). Progressions' percussion is punctuated by a flute. Impressions is said to be about painters, including Jackson Pollock, who would probably never recognize himself as portrayed by Ralph Gomberg's oboe. And vice versa...
...grander scale, the Los Angeles engineering firm of Ralph M. Parsons Co. has proposed a scheme to tap the vast water reserves of northern Canadian rivers. Called NAWAPA, for North American Water and Power Alliance, the project would channel the waters to the Canadian prairies, 33 U.S. states, and three states of northern Mexico, opening up in Mexico alone eight times as much irrigated land as in the Aswan Dam region. But NAWAPA would cost $60 billion to $100 billion and take more than 30 years to complete...
...Western U.S., for example, where the Federal Government has spent nearly $21.5 billion on water development, the price of subsidized irrigation water is unrealistically low-from one-third to one-tenth of the actual cost of delivering it. Says University of Washington Law Professor Ralph W. Johnson, an authority on the legal and economic problems of water: "It is time we stopped thinking about water as a unique commodity, governed by novel rules outside the ordinary economic pattern. It is no more unique than food, clothing or shelter...