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...delayed opinion-a scalding denunciation of the intervention and its portent for U.S. policy in general. Fulbright's erratic attacks on the Administration are no longer surprising. What made this one particularly curious was the fact that, on White House orders, he had access to every scrap of information in the files-but apparently based his conclusions more heavily on the same old highly colored newspaper reports...
...Conservationists cried over detergent foam-up in streams and rivers; science developed more easily broken-down ("biodegradable") detergents. Science has developed techniques for pretreating sewage and industrial waste so that it need not pollute the nation's waters. Science will find new ways to use growing stockpiles of scrap metal; it is developing acceptable substitutes for wood...
Quintessence in a Tent. At the advance showing last week were giant tapestries from Poland, motorized mechanical sculptures made out of scrap iron and continuously-tuning radios by Switzerland's Jean Tinguely, and batches of Latin American assemblages glued together out of such rummage-sale remnants as sequined bras, false teeth, rubber gloves and old shoes. There was pornography from Holland by Johannes Oldeboerrigter (painted genitalia piled on platters) and pornography from Sweden by Ulf Rahmberg (comic-booklike engravings of copulation). There was a Uruguayan artist named Carlos Paez who offered a circus happening in a black tent with...
...their adventures stir excitement, 8¾% never quite makes up its mind whether to be a spoof or a spine-tingler. But just before the giddy lovers emplane for England, Morley offers a verdict about the plot. He assures everyone that the sought-after secret document was only a scrap of paper, and the whole business just a routine bit of counterespionage. Precisely...
Just a Platform? There were no other visible, substantive reasons for Moscow's change of heart about another round of talks. But the Geneva delegates will have plenty of unfinished disarmament business to bring up again from previous sessions. There is the "bomber bonfire" scheme to scrap part (proposed by the U.S.) or all (as Russia urged) of their nuclear bomber fleets; the proposal to reduce the mounting stockpiles of fissionable material on both sides; and an extension of the test ban treaty to underground blasts, which has been stymied over whether three or seven on-site inspections...