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...year in and year out been the finest football player in the N.F.L. Bruce Taylor, the No. 1 draft choice of the San Francisco 49ers in 1970, had been Boston University's leading scorer-as a defensive back. Most impressive of all are the incredible giants who toil in the trenches, the 260-and 270-lb. defensive linemen who are often as fast as their teams' running backs. The key player on last year's Super Bowl Champion Dallas Cowboys is eleven-year Veteran Defensive Lineman Bob Lilly. "Mean Joe" Greene of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Claude...
...deficit. Indeed, a discussion of steps to ease the U.S.-Japanese trade imbalance will be high on the agenda when President Nixon and Premier Tanaka meet in Hawaii late this month. Westerners commonly believe that Japan has built its towering trade surplus because its workers are selflessly willing to toil for sweatshop wages. But TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel argues that this is not the real reason for Japan's success. The high productivity of Japan's modern, well-automated plants is a much more important factor...
...statements brings up myriad problems. In considering the effects of the 770-mile-long trans-Alaska pipeline, for example, planners had to investigate obscure questions like the effect of the pipe on caribou migration and spawning salmon. Its "statement" eventually filled nine large volumes. As a result of such toil, industry must often wait and wait for final approval of the agencies' statements before it can get on with its own work. Electric utilities with plans to build nuclear reactors have been particularly hard hit. NEPA is partly responsible for the fact that the Atomic Energy Commission...
...from anywhere. We are all well. I push the stone up the hill and down it falls. Holden S. Caulfield. Holden Sisyphus Caulfield. Camus, that nightingale who thought he was an owl, was right. At the end of The Myth of Sisyphus, he says, watching the old boy toil up and down forever, "We must imagine him happy." Happy. That kills me. It really does...
...lines, including his defense of the nation's essential goodness. Said he: "Let us reject the narrow visions of those who tell us that we are evil because we are not yet perfect; that we are corrupt because we are not yet pure; that all the sweat and toil and sacrifice that have gone into the building of America were for naught because the building is not yet done...