Word: mega
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When that great mega-megalopolitan day comes, will those cities and their transported citizens be ready for it? Obviously, the answer is no-unless they prepare for it now. A few of the states are spending millions just to survey future needs, but the effort will not help much unless it is coordinated...
...Weather Bureau, feel sure that the 1962 fallout will probably equal or exceed the 1959 peak, but they are not alarmed. The fission energy yield of the Soviet 1958 tests was 10 to 15 megatons. The total energy of last fall's Soviet tests was much greater (170 mega tons), but most of it came from nuclear fusion, which creates little fallout. Only about 25 megatons came from nuclear fission of uranium or plutonium, and since many of the Russian tests were exploded at high altitudes, their dangerous fission products will presumably stay aloft for longer periods of time...
There isn't much room left in New York City. It is no longer a metropolis (from the Greek for "crowded")--it is the center of a megalopolis (from the Greek mega, "impossibly over-crowded"). Traffic conditions are partially responsible for the city's slow death by strangulation, and in recent weeks, people who have been saying so all along have been heartened by the intelligence and energy of the City's new Traffic Commissioner, Henry A. Barnes...