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Balmy Southern California has long been a natural habitat for nudists. But now the new permissiveness has caught up with this once-daring tribe. After visiting a former citadel of the cult near Los Angeles, TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler reports...
...this suggests a picture of new American population patterns emerging in the next decade or so. The rural population, which is diminishing, is not likely to be replaced by big-city or suburban dropouts in search of a better life. The cities will become increasingly the habitat of singles, childless couples, blacks and the other nonwhite minorities. "Manhattan may be the prototype city of the future-for either the poor or the rich," says Rakove...
...great and perilous way they have entered upon, offering in deed and word an authentic Christian humanism as alternative to what they consider a cannibalizing society eating its young and destroying the physical habitat it lives on. The Government better be wary. These are lovely people, real hard-nosed good guys. They lay their lives on the line...
...disagree on swingers' motives. Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner feels that couples who swing are incapable of intimate relationships even with each other and use wife swapping "as a safety valve that keeps intimacy at a level each can tolerate." Bartell likens the suburban wasteland to the sterile Arctic habitat of the wife-swapping Eskimo. The sterile environment, he concludes, leads some people to try group sex simply to relieve boredom. Others hope it will make them feel young, avant-garde and sexually desirable. Moreover, swinging "is in keeping with American cultural patterns: to be popular, to have friends...
...different species produce different amounts of body heat, says Sabbagh, satellites equipped with infra-red cameras could distinguish between one kind of animal and another. With satellite-provided information, scientists would immediately be able to determine animals' responses to environmental changes, as well as their adaptation to their habitat...