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Getting Together. Not that The Haight-Ashbury Utopia needs any new source of supply. Narcotics arrests in the district last year more than trebled (from 148 in 1965 to 485 in 1966). A "lid" (22 grams) of marijuana sells for $10 (v. $25 in New York City) and a 100 microgram "tab" of LSD can be had for $4. Some pot peddlers even pass out supermarket-style trading stamps with each purchase. Apart from narcotics arrests, however, the crime rate shows no drastic escalation. During a January "Human Be-In" at Golden Gate Park, 10,000 hippies turned...
From the moment of the fire, officials clamped a hermetic lid on the investigation. The inevitable result was a macabre harvest of reportorial speculation about the astronauts' last seconds. Quoting an unidentified "official source," the New York Times said that the three had suffered horribly as the fire spread: that they shrieked repeatedly, pleading for help; that they died scrabbling frantically at the sealed hatch cover of the capsule, leaving shreds of flesh on the metal; and that their bodies were incinerated until little more than bones remained...
...match what Brazil really needs for exports and home consumption. At the same time, planters are being encouraged through price supports to convert coffee land to rice, beans, corn and other crops in short supply. To put pressure on big operators, the government has put the lid on currency inflation, there by trimming Brazilian shippers' export earnings by 25% -40%. Says one U.S. observer: "This has the coffee people scared as hell." The I.C.O., for its part, is pleased. So far, some 40,000 small growers have promised to plow under 497 million trees, saving the government more...
...inversion, an atmospheric phenomenon that prevents normal circulation of air. Ordinarily, warm air rises from the earth into the colder regions above, carrying much of man's pollution with it. Occasionally, a layer of warmer air forms above cooler air near the ground; the inversion acts as a lid, preventing the pollutants at lower altitudes from rising and dispersing. Inversions are no novelty, but what happened at Donora shocked public-health officials into an awareness that such layers pose a deadly threat to an increasingly industrialized and pollutant-producing society...
...years, the central government managed to keep the lid on these divisive forces. Then, last October, the bubble burst. In the North, rioting Hausas slaughtered 3000 Ibos and injured 10,000 more. The Eastern Region accepted the more than one million refugees who fled the North in the wake of the rioting and then closed its doors, cutting off communications with its Nigerian neighbors. Ojukwu declared that unless the federal government compensated the displaced Ibos for death of relatives, property damage, and injury, the East would secede from the Nigerian federation. During November, he refused to attend a constitutional conference...