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Pinchot's propheev has been fulfilled. The nation's oil companies represent a valuable reservoir of technology and capital, but when they act together with the connivance of government, the companies wield economic power sufficient to present the use of American energy sources in a manner consistent with the national interest. The oil industry's opposition to coal liquefaction, cheap shale oil and the stretching of domestic oil supplies through methynol production has caused a tremendous waste of natural resources and a large scale misallocation of technology and capital...
Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein checked Taubman's manuscript and also weighed in with files on the boom in amateur hockey. Witnessing a Mites session in Rockland County, N.Y., Rosenstein was amazed to see six-year-old skaters wield a stick as surely as a crayon. Brooklyn-reared Rosenstein never played hockey as a boy; instead, he settled for watching the New York Rangers from cut-rate seats in the stratosphere of Madison Square Garden. Writer Taubman, though a seasoned Central Park skater and sometime impromptu stickman, claims he "really learned the game" from none other than Robert Lewis. Seems...
Chou has endured by being able to wield great power without giving the appearance of actively seeking it. Moreover, his talents have always meshed well with those of the willful, romantic Mao, who has directed his genius at broad theoretical problems rather than the administrative details at which Chou excels. The pattern was first established during the Long March in 1934 when Chou, who theoretically outranked Mao in the party hierarchy, deferred to the future Great Helmsman in a dispute over military strategy...
...reported--the State Department has denied it--that Kissinger's proposal had to be overruled by Ford himself, on the grounds that it would "needlessly" arouse concern in the United States. When the man who led the fight against Congress's ending the bombing of Cambodia is reported to wield the moderating veto in the government's war-making plans, there is something even more wrong than was obvious all along...
Part of the drama lies in watching Dysart wield his liontamer's chair, part in watching what happens to him as he is forced to compare his own barren life with the daily ecstasies of his patient. But the most powerful part of the drama is Shaffer's use of the psychiatric technique of abreaction--the literal replaying of key events--on stage. This allows him to get anything he wants on stage without any question of its being out of place. The choreographed ritual of the blinding, over in an instant, is much less like melodrama when it comes...