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...present trends continue, he says, the world city will be a ghastly, inhuman place. Determined to head off such a bleak future, Doxiadis is trying to shape the growth of today's cities. He has just completed a fiveyear, $3,000,000 study of the 23,059-sq. mi. "Urban Detroit Area," sponsored by the Detroit Edison...
...national forests and cattle ranches of central Oregon's sprawling Crook County are light-years away from cities and subdivisions. Some of the 2,450 students scattered over Crook's 3,000-sq. mi. school district travel 50 miles to class. The crisis in Crook, however, is distressingly familiar. Since last spring, taxpayers have rejected the school budget four times, finally settling for a version that was reduced by $90,000. A campaign was also begun to oust the school board; teachers' salaries were slashed by virtual coercion; a circuit court judge was called in to settle...
Romantic Past. What he found was "less like a small town than a large lifeboat," 17 sq. mi. of moor, mountain and rock supporting 138 people, where a purely feudal society had precariously survived the advent of the welfare state. Utterly interlaced through confinement and bloodlines, the islanders were leading lives somehow larger than life, gossiping about each other ("When Donald Garvard's got a bucket in him, he can be a pest of hell"), struggling to make a living from the land and the edges of the sea, engulfed in a romantic sense of the past that curls...
China's biggest foreign aid project is in East Africa, where it has recently given a $400 million interest-free loan to Tanzania and Zambia for the creation of a 1,166-mi. railroad. The railroad, whose construction is scheduled to start this fall, will transport copper from the interior of Zambia to the Tanzanian coast. China has also pumped $60 million into Tanzania's first five-year plan. It has provided the guerrillas in Southern Tanzania with thousands of tons of arms and ammunition to be used in their forays into white-controlled Rhodesia, South Africa, Mozambique...
...Platform Charlie, 30 miles off the Louisiana coast (TIME, April 13), caused the worst offshore oil-well spill in history. For three weeks, a dozen underwater wells spewed up to 1,000 bbl. a day of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, creating a 50-sq.-mi. slick. The Government accused Chevron, a subsidiary of Standard Oil of California, of failing to install legally mandatory storm chokes and other safety gear that would have shut off the wells when the platform exploded. Last week, in U.S. district court in New Orleans, Chevron pleaded no contest to the charges...