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Still, the U.S. is aware that an accommodation with the regime that obviously controls China and wields vast influence throughout Asia would have advantages. By no means the smallest benefit would be some much-needed leverage in Washington's dealings with the Soviet Union. After all, if the Kremlin were more worried about the U.S.'s moving closer toward its huge and often hostile Asian neighbor, it might be less ready to challenge Washington...
Despite occasional collisions with man-made obstacles like the Empire State Building, one of which recently claimed the lives of hundreds of southbound warblers, birds are easily the fleetest, most accurate and far-ranging of migrants. Even the smallest feathered creature in North America, the .09-oz. calliope hummingbird, buzzes 6,000 miles each year from British Columbia to Mexico City and back. The ruddy turnstone and bristle-thighed curlew fly more than 2,000 miles nonstop from Alaska to the Hawaiian islands on their way to the South Pacific. The long-distance champion of them all is the Arctic...
...solid evidence that proves price increases are slowing "has been frustrating enough to provide material for another chapter in the Book of Job." His frustration has finally begun to lessen. The Labor Department reported last week that consumer prices rose in August at an annual rate of 2.4%-the smallest seasonally adjusted increase in three years. Nearly all the rise came in services; food and private transportation prices actually declined...
...with Power. In September, Toyota, the fastest-rising foreign automaker in the U.S., introduced a 1971 Corolla that is just about the same in size and price as the smallest Volkswagen. Listed at $1,798, not counting preparation costs, local taxes and transportation, the sporty '71 Corolla has white sidewalls and tinted glass as standard equipment. Its engine winds up to 73 h.p.-more than Volkswagen's, but less than the U.S. models...
...news of the robbery and manhunt is filtering off into even the smallest burgs of northern New England. The police are flooded with tips on the whereabouts of the suspects. The news has now broken around the country. And in New York, a writer for Newsweek is adding adjectives to the final version of the capsulized story which will appear on the newsstands here Tuesday...