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...problem of our deteriorating environment must come from science. Science can help in areas like air and water pollution and waste disposal. But an expanding population needs houses, and houses occupy land formerly devoted to other uses. Though reduction in grazing and food-producing acreage can be partially offset by technological advances, decrease in open spaces cannot. Even our national and state parks cannot remain wilderness areas, for the impact of visitors is changing the character of these areas...
Will the insight of a Willkie or a Stevenson offset the end of insight a McCarthy inspires?...this is the largest challenge the American liberal world has faced, and the payment for meeting it effectively is more than mere survival in an age of world turmoil. It holds out the hope of an inward enrichment of culture and perspective, a "coming of age,"...which in its own right is well worth fighting...
...every production area. Started by Lord Thomson of Fleet, 71, who owns 125 newspapers and 105 magazines in Britain, Ireland, Canada, the U.S. and Africa, the Evening Post of Reading makes use of equipment that has been on the market for a few years: computerized type-fitting, phototypesetting and offset printing. But never before has it all been assembled in one newspaper printing plant. In the U.S., the cost of such automation has inhibited most publishers, and even partial automation is often bucked by printers and others fearful of losing jobs. In Britain, publishers and printers have generally managed...
These words in columns of type are then arranged into pages which are photographically printed onto thin metal plates with chemically treated surfaces. The plates are put on the presses, and the inked impressions transferred to a roller and then to paper. This "offset" printing is cheaper than the usual letterpress printing, which employs heavy, molded metal plates. But at the moment, offset plates are practicable only for papers with a fairly short press...
While the average American consumer is working toward his second and often his third car, most Europeans are still working toward their first. They are working hard: Europe's overall auto sales rose 7% last year, when record years in Britain and West Germany offset slumps in France and Italy. As the annual run of international auto shows began last week in Frankfurt, Europe's 1966 model year headed toward further gains. If, as in the U.S., the new models brought few big surprises, there were striking signs that European automakers are betting heavily on some lessons from...