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...they may damage cargo vessels that follow. Often the icebreakers are halted when pressure and friction from trapped floating chunks form a vise along their sides. Now a Canadian inventor, Scott Alexander, 55, has developed a new device that breaks ice upward. The new present seagoing ice plow, called the Alexbow, may well render present-day icebreakers obsolete...
...also a writer, a humanist and human, with brilliant eyes and fine hands with which he speaks. And he loves Spain and knows her as almost no other individual does. But this knowledge only makes him more acutely aware of the tensions and contradictions that exist within present-day Spain to be resolved only upon Franco's death...
...writers as Harry Ashmore, onetime editor of the Arkansas Gazette, who is now executive vice president of the Center; Military Critic Walter Millis, who has been examining proposed changes in the draft; Classicist Stringfellow Barr, who has tried to draw some lessons from ancient times to apply to the present-day U.S. (one of them: Woe to the nation that puts too much faith in force). Far from being abstract, their writings clearly bear the imprint of their personalities...
...University) where military instruction would be part of the curriculum. The idea gained popularity. During the Civil War, Congress voted to provide free land for civilian colleges that agreed to offer military instruction to their students. In 1916, this "land-grant" system of military training was transformed into the present-day Reserve Officer Training Corps...
Stokely also puts forward the un-radical view that, given a little imagination and intelligence, the problems of the ghetto can be solved within the framework of present-day America. He cites the "ineptness of decision makers, the anachronistic institutions, the inability to think boldly, and above all the unwillingness to innovate" as the "match that will continue to ignite the dynamite in the ghettos...