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...Shinjuku, Tokyo's equivalent of New York's Greenwich Village or London's Soho, the facades of at least 1,000 clubs throw off all the colors of the rainbow. Inside, the thermostats seem to have been raised, not lowered; customers peel off their jackets, and even the bikini-clad B-girls perspire in the heat. At a restaurant on the Ginza, the headwaiter reports a more-frenzied-than-usual pace of drinking. "They drink as though this were their last big fling," he says, both gratified and concerned by the booming sales...
Open-pit mining methods, like those used to get copper in Butte, Mont., may also be tested, probably at one of the Colorado tracts. Great earth-moving machines would first peel back the sagebrush and grass over thousands of acres, next remove billions of tons of earth and rock, and finally gouge out the oil-shale beds 100 ft. to 850 ft. below the surface. The other technique, to be tried at the remaining leaseholds, will be to deep-mine with conventional pillar-and-room tunneling, as is done with coal-but on a gargantuan scale. More than...
...Peeling Off. The Administration has ruled out any abrupt relaxation of Phase IV's rules. Instead, COLC Director John Dunlop will preside over a lingering phaseout, during which controls will be selectively lifted on an industry-by-industry basis. More than 70 industries and companies have so far asked for exemptions, using, says Dunlop, "every conceivable argument that the mind of man can devise." At first, Dunlop and others emphasized granting exemptions when industry leaders promised reasonable price stability in exchange. Now the Administration hope is that by allowing prices to rise, the COLC will encourage companies to expand...
...Hospital. 1971. Black comedy in a New York hospital with George C. Scott and Diana Rigg (Emma Peel from "The Avengers"). CH.5. 8:30 p.m. Color...
Died. Don Francisco, 82, a dynamic adman whose work for the California Fruit Growers Exchange (now Sunkist Growers) in the 1920s helped peel the ornamental character from the orange and place it on American breakfast tables as a daily necessity; of cancer; in Amagansett...