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...ready for still more, California's builders have energetically churned out new subdivisions, new highways, new schools, new water projects&#new; everything. But last week, over the din of bulldozers and carpenters' hammers, a citizens' committee sounded a note of alarm and warning. In the heedless rush to keep up with the demand for more and more, warned the committee, the builders are transforming California into a mass of "slurbs-sloppy, sleazy, slovenly, slipshod semi-cities...
...Warnings to small investors against heedless speculation, delivered by New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston and others, have had some effect. But the disappointing performance of the growth-stock companies probably did as much as anything to deglamorize them. Many just did not live up to their great (but exaggerated) profit expectations. Transitron, which made its debut last year and quickly scaled to 60. is now down to 24 because 1960's black ink has turned to red. Pale profits in vending machines have sent Vendo down more than 50% from March's peak...
...first, Pak hoped that Premier John Chang, victor in South Korea's first honest elections, would sweep out the graft and inefficiency and rebuild the creaking Korean economy. Instead, corruption continued, and Premier Chang's bold economic plans made little progress. Heedless of the damage they were doing to South Korea's frail democracy, politicians selfishly fought for personal gain. Seoul's irresponsible newspapers exulted in their new freedom by jabbing at Premier Chang on every issue. President Posun Yun, supposedly a figurehead outside the political maelstrom, sniped openly at the struggling Premier...
Mumford's theme is thus the ceaseless struggle between modern civilization and modern man, massively and often turgidly argued in the pioneering tetralogy-on which he labored, heedless of the paradox that as his reputation has grown, his influence has diminished. Now, in an intricate synthesis of his past output, Sociologist-Art Critic-Litterateur-Town Planner Mumford has written a densely composed history of that struggle on its most bloody battlefield-the city. The interpretation may not be fresh, but simply as a Portable Mumford (if 576 pages of narrative, 56 pages of annotated bibliography, and 114 pages...
...across this diverse land, Nigeria's cities throb with the vigor of noisy commerce and the color of exotic dyes. In the federal capital of Lagos (pronounced Lay-gahs), where gleaming buildings rise among the slums, the streets are a cacophony of honking autos and a torrent of heedless jaywalkers. Lagos' open-air market is a constant melee: picking their way through tall piles of blinding indigo or scarlet cloth, vast platters of red peppers on bright green leaves, and mounds of white salt, hordes of shrieking women peddle alum, alarm clocks, Hershey bars, live chickens, hair tonic...