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...mostly military. On the side streets there was no traffic at all. Houses were closed and shuttered. Schools were deserted, shops closed, restaurants barricaded. Only a few sampans plied the Perfume River. Some of the buildings of Hue University were used to house refugees. Once a day a dump truck arrived loaded with loaves of flyspecked 'welfare' bread. Each family of five was given one loaf a day, and nothing more. 'All the people with enough money have gone,' one middle-aged refugee told me. 'Only we are left...
This year's second Dump Truck, a literary-political sketch of George Orwell by Garrett Epps, tries to place the man once again within his time. The author has tried not to abstract Orwell's writings and deliver them to us as pronouncements. Instead, Orwell's works are described in dynamic terms, moving closer to clarity and comprehension as Orwell moved through contemporary events...
...Politics. The old was represented by "Fast Eddie" Hanrahan, who returned from the political dead-and as everyone knows, the dead do not vote in Chicago unless Daley tells them to. Daley had originally endorsed Hanrahan for reelection, but party pressure forced the mayor to dump him from the ticket. A grand jury had indicted Hanrahan for obstructing justice in the investigation of the killing of two Black Panthers by the police...
...about these cost figures, but a garbage converter would be valuable even if it does not operate at a profit. San Diego County, which is weighing the pyrolysis experiment, presently produces 3,500 tons of garbage per day, spends $12 per ton to collect and haul it to the dump, and like most American cities, it is running out of dumping space...
...making a stand, we're going to have this convention," shouted one of the SDS leaders. "We need the support of everyone on campus." The picket line occasionally broke into chants of "Bar Racism - Not SDS" and "Dump Herrnstein - Not Helfand...