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...killing sea of oil off Southern California grew ever wider and more elusive. Though the eleven-day leak on Union Oil Company's offshore rig had been successfully plugged, its 800-sq.-mi. slick returned with each tide. And it was fed anew by a residual leak under Platform A that appeared last week...
...feet long and as tall as a two-story building; the interior cabin is almost twice as wide as that of the Boeing 707 (see diagram). Each airline will be free to deck out the passenger cabin as it pleases. In most versions, seats will be 10% wider than those in the current jets. In economy class, there will be rows of nine seats separated by two aisles to form a two-four-three seating pattern; in first class, the pattern will...
...ideas, the language, the culture and the cruel economic and social realities of the area. The center was to become, as one admiring Latin American archbishop would put it later, a place of "incarnation," where Yankees would be born again with Latin American hearts. Gradually, though, its focus became wider, moving away from a solely Catholic orientation and attracting college students and professors of all faiths, and even Protestant missionaries...
...least some problems of cities through his own empirical research and writing. The committee's report includes a fresh attempt to say what a unversity is and to suggest what such an institution's role should be today. It also seeks to throw light on the complexity of the wider community in which this University finds itself. It deals with university degree programs and the community; university organization and community issues; university policies toward the community in such matters as real estate, housing, planning, personnel, and so on; university facilities and the community; and university finances and the community...
...private citizen, Conservationist Udall may have far wider and more satisfying opportunities. Last week he announced the formation of the Overview Group, an international consulting firm that he will head. Overview is designed to deal with no less a problem than man's despoliation of the earth...