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Funky: solid, warm ("That's a pretty funky jacket, Kit Carson...
...that the service will become self-sustaining. "Barring mishaps," he says, "we should hang in." To reach a broader market for news of the ghetto, Earner hopes to begin a weekly newsletter aimed at business executives and social service agencies, and he is exploring the possibilities of a school kit dealing with such topics as narcotics and building-code violations. The thirst for improved coverage of minorities seems widespread. Editors, civic organizations and other private groups in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Chicago have asked CNS about the chances of establishing similar organizations in their cities...
...other side of the Nixon Doctrine, which offers U.S. assistance to Asian nations in the form of supplies rather than troops, has proved a greater success. That ubiquitous talisman of an American presence, the C-ration kit, is readily available at any cigarette stand in midtown Phnom-Penh. At Pochentong Airport, five or six planes land each day carrying up to five tons of American materiel. Still the U.S. presence in Cambodia is, for the most part, limited and discreet. "We don't need another client state," says one U.S. diplomat in Phnom-Penh. "Whether we can pull this...
...widespread use of hallucinogenic drugs may well lead society to "a higher level of social conscience" and may be useful as "a survival kit" for world crises...
...likely to live in cities occupying only 2% of the land, the sheer density of people will strain what might be called the urban ecosystem. Asks Cole: "Are we selecting for genetic types only those who can satisfy their aesthetic needs in congested cities? Are the Davy Crocketts and Kit Carsons who are born today being destined for asylums, jails or suicide...