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Londoners are complaining about "pollution by package tour." More than the usual thousands of Continental Europeans are making plans to flee their own cities this summer to avoid the youthful crush. Elderly strollers in Munich's English Gardens glower at barefoot Brooklyn musicians standing on their heads with feet intertwined or sitting yoga-style, with begging bowls in outstretched hands. The Greek Orthodox Church in Athens has adopted a new prayer entitled "For Those Endangered by the Touristic Wave." The words: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on the cities, the islands and the villages...
...arranged in which Hussein made most of the concessions, but it lasted only until September, when the P.F.L.P. hijacked three airliners, blew them up in the Jordanian desert, and openly challenged the army. This time Hussein, decrying the renewed fighting as a "shame to the Arab people," resolved to crush the guerrillas and succeeded...
Depending on a man's values, Florida is either one of the fastest-growing or one of the fastest-decaying states in America. Each week 2,750 new residents flock to its balmy climate; each year the crush fouls more of Florida's once pristine air and water. In draining swampland for home sites, canal builders have ruined vital water supplies and endangered wildlife. Near Naples, one huge coastal development recently erased a lovely mangrove-lined shore in favor of concrete sea walls. Asked to set aside a refuge for the area's few remaining eagles...
...first onrush of refugees followed the outburst of civil war in March, when West Pakistan decided to crush East Pakistan's drive for Bangla Desh (an independent Bengali State). Immediately after fighting broke out between the fierce Pathans and Punjabis of the Pakistani army and the Bengali liberation forces, 1,500,000 terrified East Pakistanis-Moslems and Hindus alike -crossed into the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Bihar. Now the escapees are mostly Hindu, and they bring tales of torture, rape and massacre. According to the new arrivals, the Pakistani government is blaming...
...Oppenheimer and one of his graduate students at the University of California, Hartland Snyder, proposed what seemed like a wildly improbable idea. When the nuclear fires of extremely massive stars die out, they suggested, the stars collapse so completely under the pull of their own gravity that they literally crush themselves out of existence, leaving only a "black hole" in space as evidence of their passing. Now, just as scientists are beginning to study the first tentative signs that there really may be such black holes (TIME, April 5), they are also being asked to consider another fantastic notion...