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...flooding our cities at a rate of 2,000,000 a year. They are being used increasingly in muggings, holdups and the random, senseless murders of strangers, which are also on the rise. The 1968 Federal Gun Control Act banned the import of many of these so-called "junk guns." But under pressure from various gun lobbyists, the landing of gun parts was not stopped. This led naturally to the profitable gun-assembly business...
Jane Musk's set looks gloriously like a long neglected junk shop, but the sound man does have to learn to deep his thoughts to himself when the wrong tape gets played. Special recognition must go to the outstanding rabbit, who carries off his role with great elan, even when he almost falls off a table...
Specific projects already underway: high density fish culture to provide local protein from basement-sized 'fish factories,' hydroponic, high yield rooftop gardens for vegetables, solar power devices, wind power tests, non-wasting waste disposal and utilization, junk reclamation and distribution, and community, co-operative production and transportation...
...parties. The material they delivered was pretty tame. Freidin and the woman who succeeded him as the second Chapman's friend, Lucianne Cummings Goldberg, reported the candidate's latest speeches, activities and statements to Chotiner. Freidin added some analysis of his own. John Mitchell called the material "junk," and it appears that nothing really confidential or damaging was sent...
Rama has its own weather, sea and balanced ecology. Its creatures are forms of organic machines that either benignly watch the visitors or drag off broken objects, thus keeping the landscape junk-free. But who built Rama and why remain a mystery, though the discovery of human-like artifacts encoded as 3-D blueprints in crystal columns suggests that Rama is some sort of vast ark in search of a new home. But in fact its only interest in the solar system is to tank up on the sun's hydrogen before rounding the next cosmic bend without...