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...neighborhoods. Though their children attend unsegregated schools, they are often last in line for the cities' already desperately overcrowded public housing, barred from private apartments and boardinghouses by "No Colored" signs, and forced to pay rates of up to 10% on mortgages for private houses. The dark million cluster in overcrowded, rundown Victorian neighborhoods in and around London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Bradford, where they sometimes make up 20% or 30% of the population. In London districts marked by proper English names such as Blenheim Crescent or Henry Dickens Court, the air reeks with curry and saris crowd...
...Arthur Clarke, for example, who still keeps a fatherly eye on the multimillion-dollar system he proposed in Wireless World for a modest fee of $40 back in 1945, foresees sweeping changes touched off by communication satellites. Cities, he thinks, may disappear. Their principal reason for being is to cluster people close together where they can see and talk with each other, a process that is not always enjoyable...
...Mussolini's son Vittorio once expressed the "enjoyment" he felt when he bombed a cluster of Ethiopians. Now Captain Lee of the U.S. expresses the same savage emotion. In the nuclear age, this kind of blood lust will result in the evaporation of Lee-and thee...
...reported doing well after five years and $289 million of development cost, but it has not flown yet; and even more money and time must be lavished on it before a cluster of F-1s can be considered a safe enough booster for the ride to the moon. Thiokol's 156-in. motor, twice as powerful as the Fl, worked the first time. Its development cost was only...
President Harold Ritchie of Thiokol is confident that in 2½ years he can have a cluster of four solid-fuel motors with 28 million Ibs. of thrust flying at a cost far below the price of an equivalent liquid-fuel booster. A cheap backup booster with such enormous power might easily save the moon program from half a decade of frustration...