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This much is certain: oranges are freezing in Florida, winter wheat on the parched Midwestern plains is threatened by drought, schools are closed in Boston because of natural gas shortages, heatless New York City residents are being forced to seek shelter in municipally heated armories, and barges are running aground as the water level drops in the less-mighty-than-usual Mississippi. Anywhere one looked, it was too cold or too hot, and nearly everywhere...
Flat Soufflé. Suddenly, all of Britain found the lights going out. Midlands auto factories began massive layoffs; the textile industry reported itself in "chaotic" shape. Londoners had to cope with horrendous traffic jams as traffic and street lights went blank. Children were sent home from heatless schools. Housewives faced piles of unwashed diapers, watched their soufflés sink, and could take no refuge in their powerless television sets. The blackouts were rotated by districts in six three-hour periods a day that always seemed to coincide with mealtimes. In some rural areas, chilly Britons hoisted shovels...
...OUTSIDE the Circle Theatre, a lonely kleig shot its searching blue light into the frozen New England sky. Two fans shivered under its heatless glare as they waited patiently, in hopes that celebrities would be there...
When the practice of placing emergency welfare cases-victims of fires, tenants of heatless buildings, or those who had been evicted for failing to pay rent-began five years ago, the average family's stay before moving on to permanent quarters was 4½ days. Then came urban renewal, which in the past three years succeeded admirably in clearing large tracts of slum dwellings (45,000 units in 1969 alone) but failed woefully to put low-cost housing in their place...
...moved to action. It has cleaned up sewage that had been accumulating for weeks in the basement of a city-owned building; towed away autos that had been abandoned for more than a month, clogging residential streets while they were gradually stripped of parts; stepped-up housing inspections of heatless, waterless slum buildings; installed a long-deferred central telephone to process housing complaints...