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...test human tolerance to supersonic airliners, which may disturb as many as 130 million Americans every day by 1975 with sonic booms, a panel of scientists last week recommended an immediate program of experimental flights over populated areas. "It's not clear," said Harvard Scientist Roger Revelle, "just how intolerable is 'intolerable.' " That question would apply to many aspects of modern life. In city after city in the U.S., strikes or slowdowns have closed schools, stopped garbage collection, endangered the public safety. The city itself sometimes seems more malignant enemy than hospitable friend. Looking at the sunset...
...once was an itinerant, guitar-playing Pentecostal minister. Coming to Rio Arriba in 1962, he formed an alliance to promote the establishment of a "Free City State of San Joaquin." Later he organized the Federal Alliance of Free City States, laying claim to Spanish land grants covering 35 million acres in New Mexico, 72 million in Arizona. 400 million in Texas, 698 million in California. But it was chiefly in Rio Arriba that Tijerina helped launch a campaign of terror...
From the Alps to Sicily, 12 million workers walked off their jobs in a one-day general strike that paralyzed Italy. With Communist and anti-Communist unions allied in protest for the first time in twenty years, demonstrators poured into the piazzas of Rome and Milan to demand higher pension and social security benefits and to curse the rising cost of living. Outside the Fiat automobile plant in Turin, police broke up a riot with tear...
...until the next one, pointing again to their great miracolo, the economic miracle that the nation's leaders always cite as proof that there is really no cause for concern. The lira is so strong that some rumors speak of an upward revaluation. Gold reserves increased by $383 million in the twelve months ending Oct. 1, the largest increase of any country in the world for that period. The Italians must be doing something right. But they must be doing something wrong, too. While the miracolo has translated itself into cars and television sets for the working man, this...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences had fallen into the "red." What that meant, really, was that the Faculty had spent more than the planners had decided it deserved. They had decided that the University's money could be better used elsewhere--like for the underpass, which cost $2 million...