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...accept - in preference to high unemployment - a "tolerable" amount of inflation, but does not define how much is tolerable. He hopes that foreign competition and an attack on domestic monopolies and labor featherbedding will help keep wages and prices in line. If they do not, "we should not shrink from selective controls" over such fields as consumer credit, mort gage rates and depreciation allowances -but not necessarily over prices and wages. He is for lower interest rates to spur the economy, for a broader taxation base to pay for the new projects. On the budget: "You run a big surplus...
...when Nixon spoke from the same platform next day, it rained again, though not until near the end of the speech (South Dakota is traditionally Republican territory). A week before, at Guthrie Center, Iowa, Nixon had laid out the first half of his farm program, "Operation Consume," designed to shrink present farm surpluses by increasing consumption of farm products (TIME, Sept. 26). At Sioux Falls he unwrapped the second half, "Operation Safeguard," designed to forestall future buildups of surpluses...
Echo's orbit has changed very little, but no one can say for sure how long it will last. All its gas pressure is probably gone by now. The only reason it keeps its shape is that the forces that tend to shrink or distort it are extremely small. Slater estimates that meteorites nibble away about 1¼ sq. in. of its skin per day. Eventually the sphere may collapse, pushed to a pancake by air drag and pressure of sunlight, or drawn together by the Mylar's "memory" of the way it was folded in the launching...
...difficult; he has done something very like it himself. He dissolved in hot water some of the proteinoids that he made by heating amino acids. When he cooled the solution, billions of microspheres appeared, about the size of cocci (round bacteria) and looking very much like them. They shrink when salt is added, and this suggests that they are hollow and that their walls are slightly permeable like the cell walls of bacteria...
That Venice's venerable Biennale should hit an alltime low this year was no real surprise to Italian critics. Over the years, they have watched it shrink in artistic importance almost in proportion to its growth as a tourist attraction. They suspect that art is not so much the object as attention-getting shock appeal, and the scramble for one of the four $3,200 "official" prizes that automatically boost an artist's prices on the international art exchange. Said Milan's Corriere Lombardo: "The Biennale has lost its artistic heritage; it is of interest now only...