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Boulez examined the role esthetics should play in a composer's work, and what effects an esthetic consciousness would have on a composer's imagination. "If your imagination is not strong enough to withstand investigation, you are destroyed," he said, "and the sooner the better...
Then comes the crisis of launching. For a few violent minutes, the spacecraft, folded into the nose of its boost vehicle, must withstand an enormous increase of gravity due to acceleration. It is shaken by fierce vibration as heat sears through the shroud that protects it from racing air. Many spacecraft have died during launch, just as human babies sometimes die during delivery...
...smell of gold dust has swelled the ranks of beltmakers from eight only seven years ago to some 84 today and, as usual, the shoddy operators have appeared on the scene. One maker boasts that his belts will withstand 6,000 Ibs.' pressure, when in fact tests have shown that they snap in a 15-m.p.h. collision. To counteract such fraud, 32 leading firms have joined the American Seat Belt Council, which certifies that their belts will take a minimum 4,000 Ibs.' sudden pressure. Detroit has so far played it safe by ordering from such well-established...
Part of the reason the AAU felt able to withstand the assaults of the NCAA was the fact it had the support of the International Olympic Federation. Rumors are that the international group was more responsive to the AAU because American colleges have aroused considerable resentment by recruiting for top athletes in foreign countries...
...unspoken promise from Blough to hold the price line. But Kennedy, like Blough, based his case on the exigencies of the world market. A price rise in steel. Kennedy told the nation on TV. would set off another U.S. "inflationary spiral'' that "would make it more difficult to withstand competition from foreign imports, and thus far more difficult to improve our balance-of-payments position and stem the outflow of gold...