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Nauru is no Bali Ha'i, but it suits its 2,700 inhabitants down to the ground. Since the ground is almost solid phosphate, the natives support themselves by selling it off at the rate of some 1,800,000 tons a year. The only cloud on the horizon is the fact that by 1995 the 5,263-acre island will be stripped of phosphate (used for fertilizer), leaving a big, barren pothole in the Pacific, 2,500 miles northeast of Sydney. Then Nauru's dark-skinned population will have to move to another, less tight little island...
...whole country seemed to be running! Thousands and tens of thousands of wild horses running in immense herds as far as the eye or telescope could sweep the horizon. Time and again immense masses of mustangs, circling and circling around us, charging and threatening to rush over us, would wheel from our yelling and firing and go thundering away...
...typical militia outpost is Tanlong, some 20 miles southeast of Saigon. At night the capital's lights loom on the horizon, but none of the 14 men on duty can afford to look at them: the Viet Cong snipe constantly. The Tanlong outpost consists of six foxholes, all half-full of slimy water. A mortar pit, with its precious weapon covered carefully in canvas, stands near by, flanked by four ancient Vietnamese graves whose massive headstones provide the outpost's only cover...
These are quasi-stellar blue galaxies -sort of quasi-quasars. Caltech's Dr. Allan Sandage described them in the Astrophysical Journal last week, adding that he suspected them of being "very distant, superbright galaxies reaching more than halfway to the horizon of the universe." Like quasars, they resemble stars, are up to 100 times as bright as an ordinary galaxy, and are receding from earth at tremendous speeds. Unlike quasars, they emit no radio energy...
SQUEEGEE by Jack Siegel. 218 pages. Horizon Press...