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...providentially handy Geiger counter assures Merle's survivors that the doomsday Bomb was at least a "clean" one. Some livestock have survived, along with a supply of gram, guns, the wine cellar and Comte's collection of shirts, which sounds as opulent as Jay Gatsby's. Malevil's tribe establishes a sort of feudal agrarian Communism. The band soon discovers that a scattering of other people near by have also survived the holocaust, among them some young women, who conveniently become Malevil's communal wives and future breeding stock. A band of loot ers begins...
...Doomsday Defense...
...reaction to Kohoutek is also taking more metaphysical forms. A militant Jesus cult called the Children of God, which claims a worldwide membership, is convinced that the comet is an omen of disaster and is directly predicting doomsday ("Forty days," warns the group's leader "Moses David" Berg, and "Nineveh shall be destroyed!"). A different alarm is sounded by the Italian parapsychologist Astaroth, 52 (real name: Claudio Giannantonio), who counsels members of the Rome political and movie set. Astaroth explains that comets disrupt the "psychomagnet-ic equilibrium" of the planetary system. He adds: "Human beings will be drawn...
...global epidemics by the end of the 21st century. Last month another computer specialist sharply disputed that gloomy outlook. Writing in the British publication Nature, he reported that the computer programs used by the M.I.T. group contain a simple but highly significant "typographical error" that drastically alters their doomsday projections...
There are funny, sad girls who look at you with lopsided little smiles and say "Oh, well," making it sound like an amen to doomsday. Even their answers end with question marks. They move around a lot-New York to California, job to job, man to man. But wherever they are, they seem to perch on an invisible staircase, spying upon the grownups' party below...