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...Hundreds of brainy M.I.T., Caltech and other technological grads are recruited each year only to be mothballed in the employer-contractors' private skill banks, as elements in "capabilities" to be asserted in possible or problematical future competitions for new public business. Meanwhile, the eager, brilliant young men gradually sink into time-serving desuetude, their skills and motivation deteriorating, their lavish salaries charged to taxpayer-supported projects of questionable usefulness in which they play no real part...
...like the story of the Japanese spy who was getting information from the English, and they knew it," growls one critic of the report. "So they fed him plans for a battleship that would sink, he duly copied it, it was built, and it sank...
carefully broke that word after the stock market closed late last week, there was enough disquieting news about autos and other sectors of the economy (see THE NATION) to cause all auto stocks to sink to 1966 lows...
...artists develop a manner of handling visual problems which characterizes all their work. Many artists commit themselves to presenting solution to problems of representation with a specific style. It seems particularly true, in the twentieth century's rapidly shifting waves of fashion, that many of these artists capsize and sink...
What's Up, Tiger Lily? Woody Allen, as televiewers know, is an anonymous little giggle merchant who looks like a slight defect in the wallpaper pattern and makes funnies that are so far out they sink before the slow boats get there. One day, for instance, he appeared in public leading his pet ant on a leash. On other occasions he wondered evilly if Memorial Day poppies contain opium, tsked sympathetically about a resolutely modern painter who cut off his ear with an electric razor, revealed regretfully that he once owned a silver mine but it tarnished...