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...expects that the high cost of the transbuses (as much as $50,000 more than a regular bus) will halt the expansion of the special van service. Still, the transbuses will soon be introduced in one of the nation's largest public transportation systems, the Southern California Rapid Transit District in Los Angeles...
GEORGE GRIFFIN, animator and Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, will personally present his own special brand of fatalistic humor and discuss a program of his films tonight at 8 p.m., at Center Screen, in the Carpenter Center. The program will include "The Candy Machine," "The Club," "Rapid Transit," "Trik Film One," "Trik Film III," "L'age Door," "Viewmaster," "Hand Collations," "Step Print," "Block Print" and "Thumbnail Sketches...
...Case Worker (1974), Hungarian Novelist and Sociologist George Konrád examined a day in the life of a state welfare worker in Budapest. As a catalogue of human detritus, the novel was both powerful and disturbing; in its rapid-fire vignettes and tortured ruminations, it strained toward poetry. Konrád was justifiably praised as a promising new international voice and as something even more rare-a sociologist who can write...
...which required reasoning and more complex neurological hookups, gave a survival advantage to the creatures with the biggest brains. That led to an increase in brain size. Hunting, with its emphasis on outwitting animals that were either faster, stronger or fiercer than the hominids that hunted them, also stimulated rapid brain growth. In addition, says Milford Wolpoff of the University of Michigan, it placed a premium on cooperation, strengthening the bond between members of the group and starting man on the road toward developing language...
...reply more fully to a reporter's routine question about monetary policy, a White House aide tacked up in the pressroom excerpts from an Oct. 4 speech by Charles Schultze, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. In the talk, Schultze deplored high interest rates and argued that a rapid expansion of the money supply would be inflationary only if the economy were more vigorous than it is. Reporters understandably Interpreted the notice as a special White House statement attacking Burns ?to the Administration's subsequent embarrassment. Says one economic aide: "In no way was this intended...