Word: reflectivity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Automakers face another problem that is increasingly common in U.S. industry: domestic cars contain a variety of parts produced abroad. Ford officials announced that the price of its '72 Pinto, Capri and Pantera models will be hiked to reflect the surtax on such imported parts as engines and transmissions. But on domestically produced cars, the big three rolled back scheduled increases averaging about 5% on their entire '72 line. The lower prices will hit hardest at financially troubled Chrysler (1970 losses: $7,600,000). Generally, Ford and G.M. officials are hoping to make up for the freeze with rapidly increasing...
Such views are certain to make Herrnstein's article at least as controversial as the studies that preceded it. Many blacks and whites will be angered by his defense of intelligence testing because they believe that the racial characteristics it discloses reflect no real differences in ability but only the cultural deprivation of blacks and the cultural bias of I.Q. tests. Because Herrnstein accepts Jensen's ideas about heredity and intelligence, as well as Jensen's contention that compensatory education has failed, he is likely to be criticized by some scientists who, like Nobel Geneticist Joshua Lederberg...
...blue-stem-grass country, where herds of beef cattle are fattened for slaughter. After a red sunset over the Kansas prairie, the engineer switches on the regular headlights and a rotating white Mars light, which cuts a circular cone through the dark. The shiny tops of the distant rails reflect the jewel-like green signals, a row of beckoning beacons in the night. Engineer O.K. Stewart remembers meeting a bobcat on the tracks one night. "Those old eyes were glowing as big as baseballs when we came around the curve," he says...
NAIVETÉ ABOUT DIEM. The Pentagon papers reflect Washington's shallow perception of the complexity of South Viet Nam's problems and the U.S.'s limited ability to deal with them. Shortly before the 1963 coup that overthrew President Ngo Dinh Diem, the White House cabled to then Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge a lengthy set of instructions. Tidily organized under points A through M, the missive loftily proposed solutions for a country riven by political and religious strife and on the verge of military collapse. According to the cable's ungainly prose, Lodge was directed...
MORMALLY this space is devoted to the exploits and accomplishments of the men and women on the staff of TIME. But last week's announcement that Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson had been appointed editor in chief of Harper's (see THE PRESS) prompts us to reflect a bit on some of our alumni who are now working elsewhere in journalism. "Shnay" leaves with our gratitude for his contributions to TIME and with our best wishes for success in his new job. If we have special reason for believing that it will be a challenging one, it is partly...