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Moving Backward. The Soviets have seldom lived up to their goals. During the 1966-70 plan there were shortfalls of about 10% in output of steel, electricity, gas and coal. The Soviets missed by wider margins their targets for television sets, refrigerators and wearing apparel...
Down with Color. Simplicity and frugality are trademarks of Cartier-Bresson. He works with the same Leica for years before reluctantly replacing it, and seldom employs filters or anything other than the standard 50-mm. lens. He never uses artificial lighting, never crops a negative for emphasis or effect. Says LIFE Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, himself a master: "In the area of reportage, he is definitely without peer...
...Students seldom make plans in the middle of the year to go into the service, Ginn said. "If a student is going to be drafted, he knows it in the fall," Ginn said...
Pusey also points out that traditionally "the power of appointment rests in the President and Fellows." This is a power which he guarded carefully in selecting deans of the University: seldom did Pusey confer with a large number of students about candidates for deans or about the qualities which should be sought...
PROTEST. An individual letter of complaint seldom moves a manufacturer to replace a car or refund the purchase price, but a buyer can greatly increase his leverage if he allies himself with other consumers and takes his case to Government agencies or others concerned with consumer protection. Nader suggests that carbon copies of a letter of complaint to a manufacturer should be mailed to the dealer, a lawyer, the President's Committee on Consumer Interests, the buyer's Senators and Congressman, the Federal Trade Commission, the Nader-sponsored Center for Auto Safety in Washington, a local newspaper...