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...plunge down on a steep trajectory, glide relatively slowly through the air, or skip along like a pebble across water. To assure accuracy, Roth gets updated calculations from NORAD two or three hours before an expected re-entry and flashes out a final warning over United's communications setup...
...pitch of political questioning in the land that goes beyond anything felt since the Depression. People challenge the system. Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd Jr., for one, last week declared that conventions are a "political carnival that should be abolished." More seriously, many ask whether the present ramshackle setup, from confused nominating procedures all the way up to the archaic Electoral College, can really be relied on to represent the majority will. Of more immediate interest to politicians is the fact that many voters seem to strain against a two-party system; the weakening of party loyalties...
National Primary? A national primary might be one solution to the contradictions of the present setup. Many students of politics, including University of Chicago Historian Richard Wade, have advocated such a primary. The parties could meet in the spring solely to write their platforms. In September, Democrats, Republicans and independents could hold separate nationwide primary elections, and the winners could meet six weeks later in the national election. Because campaign expenses for such primaries would be prohibitively high, the Federal Government would probably have to make political contributions taxdeductible. An alternative suggested by Louisiana's Senator Russell Long: each...
Avram, 38, who is an assistant professor at Downstate College of Medicine as well as head of his hospital's mechanical-kidney unit, began his economical setup with Army-surplus water tanks for mixing, storing and delivering dialysate fluid to his eleven artificial kidneys. He uses gravity feed to save pump costs. He has fluid strengths tested manually instead of by sophisticated and expensive gadgets. How safe is this penny-pinching corner-cutting? Losing one patient a year, the unit has a 3% mortality rate, against a national average of 20% reported...
...student agitators. The upheaval soon spread across much of the country, fired by the deep discontent that permeates France's system of higher education. Compared with the U.S., few youths in France get to universities at all, and those who do find themselves immersed in a selerotic setup that educators insist was out of date in Napoleon's time...