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...view of the doomsayers, time is fast running out for this plundered planet. By the turn of the century, they argue, its once plentiful resources will be nearing exhaustion. That gloomy forecast has been increasingly disputed of late, and it takes another knock in a report soon to be published by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. After three years of analysis, a team of economists headed by Nobel Prizewinner Wassily Leontief has concluded that world resources can support a growing population well into the 21st century. Global abundance will also permit higher standards of living without...
...however; he won't tolerate petty injustice. One of his few outbursts of real anger is provoked by the smashing of his shop windows by two leering thugs, hit men for the dead informer. Michel and his friend Antoine (Jacques Denis) chase the vandals down, beat them and knock them into the river...
Competition would also be lessened for Ma Bell's Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary-currently the target of a massive Government divestiture suit (TIME, Dec. 2, 1974). The bill might knock out some of the 400 independent telephone-equipment suppliers that have sprung up in the past eight years since the FCC first allowed non-Bell gadgetry, from entire corporate phone systems to replicas of antique French telephones, to be plugged into AT&T lines...
...concerns media consultants. "The imagery that candidates try to project does not work on the voters," says Patterson. He frets a bit about the overuse of imagery in the current campaign-for example, all the footage of Jimmy Carter traipsing through the peanut fields. The professor advises both parties: "Knock off the imagery and give the people the kind of information by which they can best judge the candidates...
...closing time nears, farmers can be coaxed to lower their prices even further. "Aw, c'mon, knock off another 50? and I'll buy double the amount," wheedles an old hand at the Detroit market. Many farmers do not put up much of a fight since they can pull in $1,000 on a good Saturday. Some of the farm folk even admit to a fondness for those odd city shoppers in their Lacoste shirts and Gucci shoes. Says Michael Temple, a grower from Brewster, N.Y., who peddles his produce in Manhattan each week: "The people here...