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...YORK Scattering the Pigeons Once, in a blushing euphemism, they were known as "ladies of the night." Today they are called hookers, and in Manhattan, at any rate, their activities are not confined to the dark hours. Both in broad daylight and the neon night, they flash the pink, orange and purple hot pants of the Aquarian Age, not to mention the high boots that were once a specialty of their profession and are now merely fashionable. In the spring they sprout from the sidewalks, squawking, cackling and ogling potential customers, fanning out from the bawd-walk they have made...
...SUMMER is settling in on the North Slope, and the Arctic yellow poppy blooms in riotous abundance at Prudhoe Bay. Near a lone British Petroleum Co. rig, indifferent caribou graze. At the base camp, oil workers grow restless in the 24-hour daylight. Another idle crew waits 60 miles south, near Galbraith Lake, where $4,500,000 worth of unused Cat tractors, bulldozers, graders and pickup trucks stand in precise rows, as in a toyshop at Christmas. Hundreds of miles farther south, at the port of Valdez, workers are beginning to coat stacks of rusting pipeline-400 miles...
Because it was about liberation, it was about the new society. It was a success because it was, because it overcame apathy and fear and boredom, and was able to happen at all, in a time when so few things that are about a better world happen in daylight. It was not a success because it was repressed. That would be double think. It was a success because it was beyond the law, because it represented a higher more self-sufficient consciousness; because it was thousands of people who really were brothers and sisters for the days of the demonstrations...
Because it was about liberation, it was about the new society. It was a success because it was . because it overcame apathy and fear and boredom, and was able to happen at all, in a time when so few things that are about a better world happen in daylight. It was not a success because it was repressed. That would be doublethink. It was a success because it was beyond the law, because it represented a higher more self-sufficient consciousness; because it was thousands of people who really were brothers and sisters for the days of the demonstrations...
...versatile cameras, developed by GTE Sylvania for military use, have light-amplification scanning tubes that provide night shots of daylight quality. They can photograph a man or record a license number half a mile away at night...