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PROPONENTS of the short-term proposals can be divided into three broad categories on the basis of their assumptions about what is essential to a "healthy" residential community. Those categories are: 1) proponents of the "Harvard Way," 2) proponents of the "Radcliffe Way," and 3) proponents of "squeeze 'em in" or "holding pattern" housing...

Author: By Merrick Garland, | Title: Housing | 3/1/1972 | See Source »

...higher sensibility than the average television audience, but it appeals to the chosen audience--pseudo-cynical, self-styled liberal--with a sure-fire style of scripting calculated never to lose audience attention. ("Make sure they don't switch over during the commercials," becomes, "My God, we gotta keep 'em here or they might walk over to Cinema...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Doctor Scott | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...Goddamn. I have just been out here tonight trying to shoot me a few foxes, having enough troubles of my own without all your friggin' flashers and sirens and running around tonight to scare 'em...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Spruce Creek | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

...Wyoming they wish there were a candidate in the Harry Truman give-'em-hell mold, in Arizona they would like to see a man with charisma and in Colorado they complain about the lack of excitement in the presidential race. Still, Muskie today looks like he has the Democratic nomination assured in the 13 Western states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Democrats Nominate Muskie? | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...figure out why the birds chose this particular town or how to drive the intruders away. One man wrote the mayor with a gruesome plan for overkill: "You mix coarse meal with plaster of paris and feed it to the birds. It's sure to stop 'em up." But nothing has worked-not even a Radford-like barrage of noise-perhaps because the infested area is so much bigger. As yet, there seems to be no "final solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Bird Plague | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

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