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...Moslem-dominated Zanzibar as an island unto itself, despite its 1964 incorporation into Tanzania; Karume has instituted "reforms" like forcing 14-and 15-year-old Zanzibar Asian girls to marry black Revolutionary Council members, including himself. In Equatorial (formerly Spanish) Guinea, following a business dispute with a West German pump manufacturer, President Francisco Macias Nguema seized the industrialist's wife last month and released her only two weeks ago for a ransom...
...company-which spent $59 million last year to fight pollution in its U.S. plants-accepted a consent decree from a U.S. district court. It agreed to stop pouring noxious wastes into the Hudson until its treatment facility starts operating later this year. Meantime, the Tarrytown plant will pump those effluents into railroad tank cars, then haul them to another treatment center...
...innovations were basic to the wardrobes of generations of women: jersey suits and dresses, the draped turban, the chemise, pleated skirts, the jumper, turtleneck sweaters, the cardigan suit, the blazer, the little black dress, the sling pump, strapless dresses, the trench coat. Sometimes, the determining factor was practicality: Chanel wore bell-bottom trousers in Venice, the better to climb in and out of gondolas, and started the pants revolution. Sometimes, it was purely accidental: after singeing her hair, she cut it off completely, made an appearance at the Paris Opera, and started the craze for bobbed hair. But always...
...President has clearly got the message that the economy badly needs a dose of stimulation if unemployment is to be cut substantially by 1972. Politically, Nixon has little choice but to accept deficit spending as an economic pump primer, however offensive the notion of unbalanced budgets is to orthodox Republican economics. "I am now a Keynesian," he confessed shyly after the TV conversation -which led ABC's Howard K. Smith, one of his interlocutors, to observe later: "That is a little like a Christian Crusader saying, 'All things considered, I think Mohammed was right...
...alarm system brought maintenance crews on the double. Actually, a certain amount of leakage is desirable. "Air-supported buildings must leak," explains English Architecture Critic Reyner Banham. "They are living things. They must breathe." If they are not allowed to breathe, strange things happen: the blowers that constantly pump air into the enclosed space cause pressure to build up, and the building begins to screech, pull and tug. To those within the bubble, says Banham, "it's like being inside a toad...