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Could Fallout Be Avoided? Not completely, so long as explosions continue, but it could be made negligible by cleaner nuclear devices, which the U.S. has already worked...
Deep Shock. The ferocity of the junta's reforming zeal may have toned down some of the country's bad habits-Seoul's normally dirty streets are now perceptibly cleaner, the once chaotic traffic is almost miraculously smooth-but there have been harmful side effects. In the first angry flush after the coup, the ill-paid officers of the junta slapped immense fines on prosperous businessmen and merchants for "illegal profiteering." Many of the fines were later reduced, but the business community remains in deep shock. In one district of Pusan alone, 400 shops have closed...
Proof of the effectiveness of this system has been the electoral performance of Cambridge's only municipal political organization, the Civic Association. Although the adoption of many of its programs has helped the city build one of the better and cleaner urban governments in a state where these qualities are not exactly widespread, the CCA has never been able to elect more than four of the nine Councilors. These seats correspond roughly to the influence of the Harvard-Brattle-St.-M.I.T. district and the influence of the rest of Cambridge. Give or take a seat, it is a healthy balance...
...Vacuum cleaner...
Onstage comes something that, by its own description, looks like a sackful of doorknobs. With hair dyed by Alcoa, pipe-cleaner limbs, and knees just missing one another when the feet are wide apart, this is not Princess Volupi e. It is Phyllis Diller, the poor man's Auntie Mame, only successful female among the New Wave comedians and one of the few women funny and tough enough to belt out a "standup" act of one-line gags...