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...Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, Herbert Stein, went so far as to declare that "at the moment there is no issue" in the economy. He added: 'There is no serious, coherent policy that is an alternative to the one the Administration has initiated." That convenient vacuum could be filled well before November. But for the time being, Stein appeared to be right...
...join in the cosmic ineptitude was Jerry Garcia. Standing to one side of the stage, he seemed at times almost disgusted by Wales' displays of pretension. He played only half of the set, but even then was not able to lead the group out of the mechanistic vacuum they served the audience...
Muskie forces in Massachusetts have moved into the vacuum created when Senator Edward Kennedy declined to enter the contest. The Muskie team has put together a proficient political organization and plans to field a tough-to-beat delegate slate that will help Muskie capture all of the convention votes from Massachusetts. In Connecticut liberal leaders Joe Duffey and Anne Wexler have climbed aboard, assuring Muskie the support he needs...
...Today, though, the lands bordering the Persian Gulf have a strategic importance to both East and West. Collectively, the Trucial States* and their neighbors on the gulf have a petroleum reserve of at least 345 billion bbls.-56% of the world's proven oil supply. Moreover, the power vacuum created in December when Britain pulled out the last of its political officers and military forces from the Trucial States has yet to be filled...
Enter the white amur, which operates like a biological vacuum cleaner, eating up to four times its own weight in algae every day. In 1963 the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries imported some amurs from Malaysia, later turned 70 of them over to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission for study. Outlets were carefully blocked with wire mesh to prevent any from escaping. Still, accidents will happen, and last spring Arkansas biologists found a few white amurs in the White River, a tributary of the Mississippi. Since eight years of research had disclosed no faults in the amur...