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LACKING an elemental confidence in their nation's flimsy architectural foundations, Americans continue to construct buildings which will conform to their need for a tradition -buildings which, however, bear no relation to the functional sensibility required today. These buildings, consequently, fail to grab the imagination or heart of contemporary America; they remain unintegrated and distant from the world they seek to underpin...
...equipped them with sophisticated electronic equipment to frustrate intruders and identify the hitherto anonymous rock thrower in the crowd. While such measures have engendered a great deal of student resentment, they have helped to keep the peace. WANING ISSUES. There are fewer and fewer national issues for students to grab hold of. Until last week's bombing, the Viet Nam War seemed to be winding down; the draft law has been reformed, and General Hershey sacked. Only ecology attracts serious involvement. Meantime, most of the great campus issues have been blunted by widespread reforms affecting grades, curriculums...
...Elvis comes down off the stage. He wades through the rivers of ecstatic thirty-year-olds that stream down the aisles, abandoning their husbands and lovers to drink silently at their tables. Elvis pushes slowly and resolutely through the women, Kissing those that manage to grab hold of his neck, merely touching the outstretched bands of the others. He crosses the entire room, until finally mercifully, one of his aides pulls him back onto the stage. And you understand it all too well. He's simply borrowing from the politician's routine. Abandon the motorcade and dive into the crowd...
...Grabbing Rats. "The strike," said Alan Fisher, general secretary of the National Union of Public Employees, "is to demonstrate the value of the workers and the services they provide." It did just that. Britons were suddenly aware of the man-made torrents that roar ceaselessly under city pavements. "If the pumps stop for only half an hour," warned a London official, "the sewage will start coming up. London could be swamped. People could be drowned." A sewage worker gave another perspective: "My job is to stand by a screen wearing gloves, picking off by hand anything that comes along...
...East, Western oilmen are beset by a thousand and one Arabian nightmares. That has never been more the case than now, when the unstable elements of conflict in the post-Nasser Arab world could bring trouble at any time. Will the Arabs turn off the oil taps? Might Russia grab control of the world's richest reserves? And how badly would an interruption hurt...