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...President also will have another chance in his speech to either harden or soften his attack on Congress. Even in political terms, blaming Congress makes little sense. The legislators are clearly reflecting their constituencies in questioning whether reduced U.S. military aid to Saigon had really made a decisive difference ? and in resisting more...
...blanket criticism of science fiction is to Sturgeon an "obverted obeisance," a childish act of disobedience that serves to confirm the authority science has gained. While Bova sees science fiction as the new mythology--the emotional crutch to soften the impact of science--Sturgeon finds it to be the scapegoat...
Myriad Models. The hopeful note is that the automakers seemed to have learned their lesson. The rebate programs, for example, are at least a temporary effort to soften the public's indignation about the high price of the 1975 small models. Moreover, the industry leaders now agree that there will have to be more small cars in their future. Predicts Ford's President Lee lacocca: "By the end of the 1970s, we think that small cars will be selling over large cars 60 to 40. We're planning it that way, and we think...
...does not, like themselves, plan to live on a reservation. But if they do succeed in bringing the "right kind" of Indian here--those from the reservations who have not had the advantages they themselves have had--they may find themselves confronted by a new problem: how to soften the culture shock an Indian who has never "straddled the fence" will probably experience here...
RICHARD G. KLEINDIENST, 51, Attorney General. Pleaded guilty to refusing to testify fully during his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1972, when he stated falsely that Nixon had never pressured him to soften the Government's antitrust drive against ITT; received a one-month suspended sentence...