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...been made. In Omaha, federal, state and local funds support a center that trains the mentally retarded in simple job skills like assembling hair curlers. The city also has four hostels and three apartments in which retarded patients live. But such examples are rare, and Wolfensberger hopes for much wider acceptance of the Scandinavian approach...
...same time, Volkswagen will roll out what it calls the "superbeetle," listed at $1,899. It will be about 3 in. longer and 1 in. wider than the standard VW. Volkswagen is already the fourth-largest-selling car in the U.S., with volume this year expected to reach 560,000. The president of Volkswagen of America, J. Stuart Perkins, appears to relish the heightened competition. "We'll sell 600,000 cars in 1971, while Ford and G.M. should each sell 500,000 Subcompacts...
...Detroit by moving more strongly into the medium-priced market. In January, the 1,150 Volkswagen dealers in the U.S. will put on sale a new sedan listed at $2,959. Called the 411, it is slightly more than 20 in. longer than the 158.6-in. standard beetle, and wider and much heavier. When the 411 was introduced in Europe in 1968, critics complained that its 68-h.p. engine was not powerful enough to haul the car's weight and that the 411's interior was not well insulated against engine noise. VW states that the newest model...
...solutions make a noticeable effort to avoid the problems they purportedly seek to solve. Americans, supposedly a very pragmatic people, naively continue to hope "that our transportation crisis will be solved by a bigger plane or a wider road, mental illness with a pill, poverty with a law, slums with a bulldozer, urban conflict with a gas, racism with a goodwill gesture...
reform of General Education either by abolishing the Gen Ed Program and substituting a wider-ranging system of distribution requirements, reducing the number of Gen Ed courses and confining their subject matter more closely, or by instituting a "core curriculum" of basic courses which all students would be required to take-or by dropping all such requirements...