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...display at Le Bourget, after flying 3,220 miles from Dakar to Toulouse in just under 2½ hours, giving the experts a unique opportunity to compare the two transports. Some said that the TU-144 was cleaner and quieter than the Concorde, perhaps even quiet enough to meet stringent new U.S. noise standards. Others who had studied year-old photographs of the TU-144 noted that the Russians had lengthened air inlets on the four giant engines and sharpened edges on the inlets, apparently in an attempt to improve fuel economy. Perhaps even more important than operating costs, however...
Most Americans, including most Congressmen, want to prevent American entanglement in future Indochinas. To accomplish that, it is not necessary-or wise-to impose overly stringent and sweeping limitations on U.S. influence abroad. But the nature of that influence must evolve in new ways. Viet Nam should teach us-as it did the French -that modern armies and industrial strength are not effective in all regions of the world or the automatic answer to wars of "national liberation" (even those backed by other nations). Both Congress and the President should jointly re-examine the security treaties and agreements that...
They warn, however, that if these requirements become more stringent in the years just ahead, the costs could rise much higher. Indeed, the Federal Government's latest estimates show that the private sector should budget at least $23.6 billion for the next five years. Even if the lower figure is correct, U.S. industry must sink amounts equal to about 5% of its pre-tax profits over the next half-decade into antipollution research and equipment...
...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 on a stringent level of quality and intelligence. His output constitutes a kind of critical meditation on what is and what is not intrinsic to sculpture. The lucidity of his argument is what makes his work so influential...
WASHINGTON-U. S. Capitol police-assisted by members of the Metropolitan Police Civil Disturbance Unit (CDU)-arrested more than 1200 hold-over antiwar demonstrators here yesterday over the stringent objections of four members of Congress...