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...Layer of Despair. The Washington demonstration was the kind that the cops could have brought their children to; at least one policeman did. Unlike 1969, Government buildings were not guarded by visible contingents of troops last week.,The area around Lafayette Square and the White House was not closed off by bumper-to-bumper buses as it was in May 1970. College students, though still the largest single group, seemed proportionately fewer. Teeny-boppers abounded in the crowd. Organized labor took part in greater numbers than before; burly Teamsters acted as marshals around the speakers' platform. In San Francisco...
...much the way that fish cannot conceptualize water or birds the air, man barely understands his infosphere, that encircling layer of electronic and typographical smog composed of cliches from journalism, entertainment, advertising and government. Gravenson, a writer of TV commercials, undoubtedly has contributed more than his share of pollutant. But with a little help from his friends (he claims to have written his novel under the influence of marijuana), he seems to have hovered above the infosphere long enough for an entertaining and satirical look...
Much the same applies to the next layer of Soviet leaders?the 150 or so party first secretaries of the regions and republics. More than half of them have no direct experience whatsoever in managing economic enterprises. They generally have spent most of their lives in the party apparatus, which the University of Toronto's Lewis Feuer aptly describes as "the ambitious mediocracy." In party ranks, advancement is awarded most often to the wily and tough, not to the thoughtful or the innovative...
Then a flurry of editorials stressed that the party must be rid of "monsters and ghosts." More teachers were hauled up to account-and the principal himself. In August, the Cantonese city and provincial party apparatus came under attack-and collapsed. Looking higher and higher for leadership as each layer of authority was discredited, the students continued to ferret out monsters and argue over the meaning of directives emanating from Peking. Advice to "destroy the Four Olds" (old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits) sent Dai and his friends roaming through Canton, smashing anything that looked faintly bourgeois...
...iron and is also found in meteorites. Around the core is a 60-mile-thick transition zone, or lower mantle, composed of a mixture of olivine and basalt-like rock that was apparently formed out of molten material. Next comes the 150-mile-thick upper mantle, an entirely basaltic layer in which, some lunar scientists suspect, there may have been slow-moving convection currents -movements roughly akin to those that occur in a simmering pot of oatmeal...