Word: musts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Earth Catalog lists how-to books on primitive house building (adobe huts, log cabins, teepees, metal domes constructed from jettisoned auto bodies), organic farming, sewage disposal, practical sociology. It also reprints a letter from a disillusioned former commune member who writes: "If the intentional community hopes to survive, it must be authoritarian, and if it is authoritarian, it offers no more freedom than conventional society. I am not pleased with this conclusion, but it now seems to me that the only way to be free is to be alone...
...South Africa's trade deficit is growing. The country must either sell more surplus gold to pay for imports or reduce them and invite domestic inflation. Some European bankers have been urging the U.S. to relax its opposition to South African gold sales for official reserves. Washington has rebuffed that idea, but last week Paul Volcker, Treasury Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, suggested that if South African trade deficits grow to worrisome proportions, the country might instead sell some gold to the International Monetary Fund. After all, the IMF's main mission is to promote stability...
...already jammed with people, all kinds of people milling about, just as if we were all spectators at some great circus and the canvas was about to collapse all about us, but nobody quite knew how to panic. There was simply no way to characterize the crowd; the militants must have all been up front because they didn't seem to be in evidence. In the midst of everybody else was a button-hawker with a large, black-felt-covered board, dotted with all colors and sizes of peace buttons. A few kids stood around him trying to decide which...
...taken place right out there on Canal Road. And now, here it was five in the morning, and I was forcing my recalcitrant body to sleep in the crowded quarters of the car's front seat. The guy with the bullhorn and Frank's white Rambler-they must serve as my moral equivalent of war. Second-rate substitutes of course, but then, you'll have to admit, these are second-rate times we are living...
...joke must still be maintained at all costs...