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...Ralph Nader would liken a pickup truck carrying a camper box around a tight turn to a circus elephant with one leg raised? Or another pickup in an S-turn to a round-bottomed dinghy during a squall? Who at the same time would warn that baby shampoos, their ads notwithstanding, will probably sting the eyes of some infants? Or declare that the most persistent cheating at supermarket meat counters is plain, old-fashioned short-weighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Catalogue of Caveats | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...produce the noise by rubbing a toothed vein on one forewing with a pluck on the other. University of Florida Entomologist Thomas J. Walker explains that male field crickets produce three identifiable songs: one to hail a likely lover, another to beguile one already enthralled, and a third to warn off a potential rival. The kind of sound a cricket makes depends on the species, the air temperature and the circumstances in which the individual insect finds himself; There is no telling what loud sounds of pain or pleasure a cricket might make if he found himself decked out like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Why the Cricket Chirps | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...most serious threat is still in Cambodia. Partly because the Lon Nol government has not even attempted to establish a presence much beyond Phnom-Penh, Communist recruitment efforts in the countryside are thought to be going very well. Substantial aid from Thailand has yet to materialize, and Cambodian officials warn that their government could fall within six months without more U.S. support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indochina: Back to Guerrilla Warfare | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...Shultz rather than Justice or HEW officials who briefed the press on the Administration's intentions. As a battle over foreign trade policy continues in the Congress, it is Shultz rather than Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans who is explaining Nixon's preferences. When Nixon decided to warn Congress that it must hold down spending to check inflation, it was again Shultz rather than a member of the speechwriting staff who wrote the statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Administration: George Shultz Has Arrived | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

...world will end with a cough, a wheeze, a mass gasp of emphysema. So it seemed last week, a bad week, as dirty air smothered cities around the earth. Millions of smog-choked city dwellers began to feel like canaries in coal mines-obliged to perish in order to warn others of potential disaster. Rarely before had man's dependence on the fragile biosphere been so dramatically illustrated on a global scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Smog Goes Global: A Bad Week in the Cities | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

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