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Last spring Teacher Cassell sent 21 sophomores out to survey Glendale on the premise that "a community is composed of a group of organisms living together in dynamic equilibrium with the environment." They discovered that the chaparral on the nearby Verdugo Mountains is all that keeps Glendale from being washed away by flood. Studying plants, they found those that best sustain this growth, e.g., black mustard. They analyzed the city water supply, found it pure but dwindling. Armed with petri dishes, they made bacteria counts in restaurants, groceries, the city jail, restrooms and hospitals. They measured noise, nutrition, recreation, garbage...
...hours' exercise on an occasional weekend will not suffice. "To maintain . . . equilibrium in heart metabolism,' Dr. Raab says, "one has to earn it day by day and year by year . . . Our Western so-called 'normal' hearts . . . are in reality pathetic artifacts, insidiously degenerating products of supercivilized soft living...
...Crucifixion." The war betwen traditionalists and modernists is useless; the only valid war is between the good and the bad, both of which can be achieved in any style. Ernst Halberstadt's representational (and Oriental-influenced) "Landscape" was fine, as was John Gregoropoulos' abstract "Olympian Landscape"; Yukata Ohashi's "Equilibrium No. 4" was abstractionism at its worst, while William Hardy's representational "Bridge at Portsmouth" couldn't even get the bridge towers in proportion...
...next comes a 1936 British Lagonda for $2,000. If a prospect looks under an ancient hood, he may find a tin can packed with metal shavings in place of an air cleaner; salesmen rush up with warnings not to touch engines for fear of disturbing the precarious equilibrium developed over years of makeshift repairs...
Other House concessions are established periodically, but their volume of business is apparently too small to maintain financial equilibrium. A concession operator must do about $5,000 worth of business to make a 15 or 20 per cent profit worth the time he spends at the counter, Burke estimated. Most House stands have been unable to reach this minimum amount of trade...