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...only one or two companies may be necessary in some industries. In others, mergers would help smaller producers grow bigger-and better able to meet the foreign challenge. Some men in Nixon's inner circle argue that the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts were written for a different, simpler age. There may soon be a high-level call for a relaxation of antitrust rules and procedures, though that is certain to run into furious resistance in Congress...
Failed Assumption. The simpler art looks, the more esoteric it seems to get. Probably this happens because we expect a work of art to be a rich crock of ideas and visual transactions, and if the box on the floor seems nothing of the sort we assume that its complexities have merely veiled themselves, rather than gone. A great many works of second-rate minimal art-complacently irreducible objects set up with a phony air of discovery, didactic in look but teaching nothing-have benefited from this assumption. But Judd is one of those reductive talents who operate...
...repairs-and with good reason. Most of the 500,000-plus Americans who die each year of heart disease suffer from atherosclerosis, the buildup of hard, fatty deposits that narrow the coronary arteries and cut off the flow of oxygenated blood to the heart muscles. Only revascularization, which is simpler and safer than transplant surgery, offers many patients a chance for survival...
...days before 1960 glance back with either fondness or sadness, but rarely with bitter regret. They look at the past with the secret sense of triumph that comes to all survivors. Besides, nostalgia gives them a spurious sense of sophistication; it enables them to feel superior by laughing at simpler times...
...Track coverage at Dartmouth is much simpler. The Daily Dartmouth has had several "this is your life" stories on weightmen Bill Diuneen (hammer), Wayne Moody (shotput), and Ted Moody (shotput). Not that the Dartmouth is that aggressive in its track coverage. So far this spring it has found less than half a dozen other track members worth mentioning...