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...sweats for hours in jampacked trains and buses or bounces over potholed roads, and as he peers with smarting eyes through the ubiquitous smog. The Japanese are somewhat shamefaced that while Paris has had a complete sewage system for 200 years, only 9.2% of Japanese homes boast flush toilets. That total includes even Tokyo, whose 11.4 million residents account for one-tenth of the country's population. "We have lacked investment in social-overhead capital," says Sato, "and this is a good moment to improve that...
...after day, residents and industries in the Chicago area flush 1.5 billion gallons of raw wastes into the city's sewers -out of sight and mind. The flushings become the metropolitan sanitary district's Sisyphean task; the engineers must not only treat the ceaseless torrents of raw sewage but also find some place to put the day's residues-and space for such byproducts is limited. Yet Chicago now seems to have solved the dilemma with such practical and ecological wisdom that its program may well become a model for other cities while incidentally and fortuitously reclaiming...
...Houriet reports, was Oz, a fantasy-ridden experiment near Meadville, Pa., which featured daily readings from Dr. Seuss, Winnie the Pooh and (naturally) The Wizard of Oz. Meadville's citizens, at first tolerant, gradually turned against Oz, largely because of the commune's lack of concern with flush toilets and regular baths. Once, Houriet reports, an Ozite named Patty-Pooh tried to "vibe away" unfriendly visitors by "performing a nude dance on the farmhouse roof. Of course," he adds, "it had the opposite effect...
...bitter denunciations of white civilization as decadent and evil, LeRoi Jones cannot quite flush it from his system. It is as much a part of this 36-year-old black writer as having been the son of a Newark, N.J., postal worker, a graduate of Howard University, an East Village intellectual with a Tyrolean hat and a white wife, and a gifted poet-playwright who was cheered until white liberals decided that white guilt was a form of masochism...
...best of these are chosen to stay on to work the handful of lucrative details that oil the relentless flow of events that comprises the Reunion. The "best" are, of course, chosen by the crew captains who supervise the work effort, and the promised tips of financially flush alumni are the oft-mentioned carrots that gets everyone on the stick...