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Even Thieu's supporters were finding that argument difficult to rebut. Doc Lap, a Saigon newspaper that has generally supported the government in the past, expressed the mood in a poem addressed to Nixon...
Still, NASA seems unable effectively to rebut its critics. Because of the budget cuts, NASA will be able to send up only two more moon missions; originally there were to be another five. Plans to land an unmanned probe on Mars have been set back to 1975. The launching of Skylab, the first U.S. orbital space station, is unlikely to occur before 1973. Cape Kennedy's director, Kurt Debus, explained NASA's problem on the eve of Apollo 15's launch: Space is enormously important to the future well-being of the U.S., he said...
Boycott Cheese. The SST supporters have deluged Congress and potential backers elsewhere with a mail blitz of 400,000 pieces of literature. In smooth prose, they seek to rebut each criticism of the plane and to stress its economic benefits. One broadside claims that "one SST sold overseas will offset the import of 20,000 Volkswagens or 200,000 Japanese TV sets...
...cause for surveillance, he argues, the Government has no right to secretly record anyone's attitudes toward politics, sex or religion. Ervin hopes that his hearings will lead to federal privacy legislation giving Americans a new right to know what information is being kept about them, and to rebut inaccurate data. If such a right is established, Ervin believes that a new federal agency may be needed to enforce it. In any case, he says, snooping must be curbed. "When people fear surveillance, whether it exists or not, when they grow afraid to speak their minds and hearts freely...
...Along with TIME Book Reviewer Martha Duffy, I deplore the apparent demise of the English gentleman-detective [Feb. 1]. But I must rebut her dismissal of Dame Agatha's prose as more "careless" than Miss Allingham's. Christie people are somehow believable people whom one has met before-for good...