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Also banned is "information about the consequences of earthquakes, tidal waves, floods and other natural calamities" and "information about the number of fires and their victims...
There is a possible compromise. Manmade locks might be built to control the dangerous high tides. Stretching across the three natural openings between Venice's lagoon and the Adriatic, the locks would open to let ships reach Marghera and would close to prevent Venice from being swamped in tidal water. That would allow further building on the mud flats-if the state decides to spend some $80 million on the locks...
...consumers and businessmen continue to step up their buying, growing numbers of key industries are caught in a tidal wave of orders that is clogging production lines and slowing shipments. Such industries as steel, lumber and aluminum are operating at or close to capacity. In addition, more and more manufacturers with available space and equipment are unable to crank up facilities fast enough to meet the torrent of new business. The results are spreading shortages and a sharp upswing in industrial prices. These are classic symptoms of demand-pull inflation, in which too many dollars chasing too few goods...
...Brakhage's goal is to make films which will maintain lasting value and sustain an infinite number of screenings. As such his medium is hardly the mass-age: Joyce and Picasso imply Brakhage far more directly than do Warner Bros. or Warhol. In fact, Brakhage's relationship to the tidal wave of free-form image-ination films is strikingly similar to Picasso's to cubism...
FACED with a tidal surge of public worry about inflation, President Nixon last week moved to shore up the sagging voluntary price controls of Phase III. But he stopped far short of reimposing the tough controls of Phase II-let alone ordering the temporary wage-price freeze that more and more of his economic critics are demanding. His actions brought some cheer to Wall Street, where stock prices recovered somewhat from what had become a headlong rout, but elsewhere left as much doubt as ever that the rise in living costs can be checked...