Word: rigidities
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Greater Cohesion. Not until Europe has achieved a modicum of political unity, Ball warned, can it expect anything closer to "a true nuclear partnership." The lack of political integration also hamstrings NATO as "an instrument for effective political consultation," and Ball decried the "rigid philosophical differences" that prevent NATO from enforcing sanctions against Cuba. Without naming Britain or France, both of whom trade with Castro, he put his finger on NATO's real problem: its members' "limited sense of world responsibility-as distinct from national interest...
GERALD GLADSTONE-Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th. A young Canadian sculptor sees the universe as rigid and definite in shape, favors the cone as a fundamental form. His welded-steel Galaxies, laced with a network of rods and discs, make lively geometric studies of space and time. Through...
...piece of metal is near by, the magnetism starts currents flowing in the metal. These currents are surrounded by their own magnetism, and repulsion between the two fields drives the metal violently away from the coil. The action is over in microseconds, but it is powerful enough to push rigid metal into almost any shape...
...almost everywhere, and the desire of moneyed Europeans to break out of the tightly boxed cities. The entire Paris area has 3,200,000 dwelling units for a population of 8,500,000; some 500,000 of them have no running water and 1,400,000 no toilets. Yet rigid rent control laws and high mortgage rates (nearly 15%) discourage remodeling or new building. Around London, land use is dictated by community planning officials, who are dedicated to preserving an esthetically pleasing "green belt"; when they finally rule a piece of farm land free for building, the land value...
...frustration of Negroes at lack of progress from "gradual," peaceful methods, particularly in rigid Mississippi...