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...Humphrey's vice presidential stance on the war. In a recent "analytical piece" on opposition candidates, for example, Monday damned Humphrey for being "as wrapped up in the blunders and errors of the Viet Nam War in the '60s as Br'er Rabbit was in the Tar-Baby...
...reserves, which Canadians at present have neither the capital nor the domestic markets to develop. Oil wells in Alberta, which could produce 1,700,000 bbl. daily, are now capped for lack of markets in either country. Assurance of a U.S. market also could speed development of the Athabasca tar sands, which hold an estimated 320 billion barrels of oil that could be extracted economically at prices only slightly higher than those prevailing...
Ever since Du Pont scientists in the 1930s mixed coal tar, air and water to produce nylon, the wizards of Wilmington, Del., have been searching and researching for another equally profitable synthetic smash. By 1964, Du Pont chemists thought that they had found it: a porous polymer that looked and felt like leather, yet wore like armor plate. The company thereupon introduced Corfam, a weatherproof shoe material, predicting that by 1984 every fourth foot in the country would be encased in it. Du Pont stock rose to an all-time...
There are enough who fit each aspect of the composite to unfairly tar all the needy, but the reality of poverty in the U.S. is not what myth would have it. A majority of the welfare recipients in the country are white (58%), and thousands of them?many from high-paying jobs, especially in engineering?are now discovering the shock of poverty for the first time. Forty-two percent are nonwhite, more than three times their proportion of the population?testimony to the dislocation and discrimination in American society. Hundreds of thousands of blacks left the Deep South...
...loud ovation for Congress on their recent ban of cigarette advertising from television [Jan. 11]. No more disillusionment of springtime in winter, tasteless bad grammar, tar and nicotine counts, special filtration and Micronite filters, cigarette-holder comparisons, dancing and singing cigarette packs, smokers who would rather fight than switch, etc. Now let's eliminate smoking in public places...