Word: talking
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Anything but Progress. Time, above all, is what Indira needs. For all her talk of socialism, she has offered few concrete plans, and her political victories of the past months have preserved her power at the price of further wrenching apart the Congress Party. Congress has ruled for 22 years, but the national elections of 1967 sharply reduced its once-overwhelming majority in Parliament. For millions of Indians, the stability ensured by Congress Party rule no longer outweighs the drift, indecisiveness, lack of discipline, and corruption that go with it. If the minority parties-right and left -continue to gain...
...number of state legislatures are discussing proposals to ban nonreturnable bottles. In addition, there is talk among Federal officials about a possible "effluent" tax on a variety of consumer containers. In effect, this might resemble the deposit system. The consumer would pay a small tax per can, then get his money back when he returned the can for reuse. It is an ingenious idea, but it will need far more political support before it can come to pass...
...ideal container for prodigal America is the edible ice cream cone. In this vein, there is now much talk about "bio-degradable" bottles and cans. But a container that would quickly dissolve when discarded or immersed in water has yet to hit the market. A Swedish firm, Rigello Pak A.B., claims preliminary success with a cardboard-encased, polyvinyl container that is being tested with beer. The company plans full production early next year. The Rigello bottle, though, does not actually dissolve. According to its makers, it can be crumpled easily for tidy discarding and eventually rots...
...more spare, more pure. Mies' discipline is demanding, and except in his hands, a confining one. No one can build a better Seagram Building. And by its very austerity, Mies' esthetic provides no vocabulary for a whole city landscape-a topic that obsesses most young architects, who talk not of individual buildings but of "reshaping the urban environment." A city, or even an avenue lined with Seagram Buildings would be a desolation...
...past two years, most CBS stations have been gamely running late-night movies, while NBC and ABC have done nothing but talk, talk with Johnny Carson and Joey Bishop. But movies no longer automatically grab a big audience and, more to the point, talk shows are cheap to produce and show large profits. Last week it became talk, talk, talk as CBS offered its own late-night interviewer, Merv Griffin...