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...BLARE of bands and crackling orders shattered the pineland quiet near Colorado Springs. The giant $133 million motel-like complex of aluminum and glass was ready at last. Into the U.S. Air Force Academy marched 1,148 cadets to face a tough, four-year program with the broadest curriculum yet devised for future U.S. military leaders. For news of their first days, their curious customs, and lingo as well, see EDUCATION, Home of the Doolies...
Having finished a parody of decent domesticity, "Hum" and "Lo" embark on a parody of incest that takes them across the continent. They restlessly traverse the neon-lit landscape of filling stations, diners, small towns, automobiles and asphalt -the motel tundras where, if one pays, checks out by noon and turns in the key, one can voyage to the end of night...
...Lebanon in north central Kansas. This is the geographical center of the U.S., a trifling fact established 40 years ago in much that way, by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Pridefully, Lebanon put a marker on the spot, struck off fitting souvenirs, built a new $50,000 motel and counted 20,000 tourists a year...
Yours is a motel civilization, from gentlemen farmers to university professors. Your literature has standardized the Bible and propitiated the cult of the Word. Your art makes no sense and your music is too loud. You cannot speak to one another and you have for gotten who you are. You have only dictionaries and manuals and wireless sets--tuned in to nothing and listening attentively to babble...
Helicopters & Nudists. Though he is far from making the annual $420,000 needed to keep Woburn up, the duke plans a motel and trailer park, will stage a tractor race with the Marquess of Bath in July, will even entertain a convention of nudists in August ("Well, why not?"). For those who call such antics undignified, the duke has only scorn: "Try to sell your dignity to a pawnbroker and see how much you get." Besides, he says with a self-satisfied smile, "the people who have been so bloody nasty in the past are now beginning to copy...