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...builders can withstand a long strike because they work with borrowed capital that can be repaid only after they collect for a complete job. Fragmented bargaining produces bizarre effects. When a strike hit Trenton, N.J., carpenters had only to drive beyond the city limits to find plentiful jobs, many with the same contractors they were striking...
Faint Signals. Russian scientists had redesigned the Venera spacecraft to withstand pressures of 150 earth atmospheres and temperatures in excess of 1000° F. They also redesigned their parachute (probably made of steel mesh) to enable Venera to descend more rapidly to the surface. To allow for the higher landing velocity, they incorporated a shock-absorbing landing gear...
...third leg on one of the family members depicted on the cover of TIME interested me. I thought, perhaps, it might symbolically represent the additional strength necessary for youth to withstand the "vast demands . . . made on the family these days" and to help them face the "forces that are weakening the U.S. family structure...
Disaster strikes so frequently nowadays that films like Elvis and Woodstock alone seem able to withstand the rush of events. A few years ago, Monterey Pop was an equally annoying achievement-full of interminable concentration on the Mamas and the Papas (John Phillips was in on its financing) and packed with a lollipop and roses view of life. But, ironically, due to the deaths of Redding, Hendrix, and Joplin, all of whom appear in the film, it is now, for all its flaws as a film, one of the few permanent memories of their work we have...
Auto insurance is high, say the insurers, partly because manufacturers design cars that can crumple easily in minor accidents. Allstate Insurance Co. last spring offered a 20% discount on collision coverage for any car that could withstand a 5 m.p.h. crash without front-or rear-end damage. So far there have been no takers. Criticizing Detroit's 1971 models, Allstate Chairman Judson Branch complains: "Look at the bumpers! Still tucked against the sheet metal: a perfect battering ram and shock transmitter. Another model year down the drain as far as sturdier cars...