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...Your method of healing the nation is a little like seeking a Band-Aid for a case of tuberculosis. Why not step even farther back for perspective and work on the virus of our disease-that 73% of Americans live on 1% of the land? A system of tax incentives could be used to relocate companies and corporate headquarters outside the teeming cities. With a communications system such as ours, there is no reason for so many sources of employment to be located on overcrowded, crime-infested, air-polluted islands of humanity. The answer must surely be to make...
...most California cities, topless dancers are now hopelessly oldfashioned. In one Los Angeles pool hall, the men around the tables hardly notice the topless dancer ten feet away from them. Many nightclubs are now promoting the "bottomless" dancer, who performs covered only by a G string, known as a "Band-Aid," or, in the case of one San Francisco dancer, a gold heart from Tiffany's that says "love" in six languages...
Heavy-handed amateur ironies prevail. A Polaroid commercial is doctored to show a still of a dead soldier; a Band-Aid commercial is spliced into combat scenes. Only bits and pieces of conversation with Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro give anything like a sense of ideological actuality. The rest has the secondhand look of a film that has been petulantly edited, as the title implies, far from Viet...
Grand Prix drivers like to talk about the rubber they burn when drifting through a chicane. A steeplechase rider will verbally rebreak every bone in his body at the drop of a crop. But none of those dangers can hold a Band-Aid to the ones experienced routinely by the madmen of sporting masochism: racing pilots. Whipping airplanes around pylons mere yards above the deck is a sport so risky that it all but disappeared from the U.S. scene after famed Flyer Bill Odom crashed to his death in 1949. Since 1964 it has come roaring back...
...Philip Hauser, 57, a sociologist at the University of Chicago's Center for Urban Studies, the second most important urban research center in the country, advocates a federal "Human Renewal Administration." "All of the welfare and educational provisions today," he declares, "are only a Band-Aid on a gaping, massive wound. Should the present trends continue, we can expect guerrilla warfare on a scale terrible to contemplate." Hauser contends that a great deal of effort is being dissipated. "What is the point of putting children in a Head Start program," he asks, "and then into a conventional school system...