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...Faults. There is one ideal solution: earthquake prevention. Some scientists have proposed using H-bombs to jar loose locked sections of faults, thus relieving accumulating strain that would otherwise build up to dangerous levels. More realistic is the possibility of using pressurized water or liquid waste to release this pent-up seismic energy. At two carefully studied sites in Colorado, liquid injections have been found to "lubricate" locked fault systems. This allows the plates to resume sliding past each other, setting off small but relatively harmless energy-dissipating tremors...
...Pent-Up Emotions. The grievances draw considerable sympathy from the Nixon Administration's top union specialist, Assistant Labor Secretary Willie J. Usery Jr., who spoke at the convention. "Federal employees are falling behind in wages," said Usery before his talk. "There's a lot of pent-up emotion. I hadn't realized how bad it was. We must move with haste or we will have more strikes and work stoppages...
...same time, several favorable forces are at work. Housing, an early victim of the downturn, is expected to lead the recovery. The annual rate of housing starts rose to 1,358,000 in June, from 1,059,000 at the low point in January. There is an enormous pent-up demand for new housing, and financing it is likely to become easier as credit markets loosen along with the growth in money supply. Mortgage interest rates are beginning to ease...
...sense, it has been a drama of exorcism, a casting out of white devils from black minds. LeRoi Jones' Dutchman is a prime example. A sexy, sassy white girl in a subway car flaunts herself before a softspoken, conservatively dressed black boy, goads him into venting his pent-up fury at whites, and then knifes him to death. Jones achieved his own symbolic revenge soon after in his play The Toilet where a group of black boys pummel a white boy to death and leave him with his head dangling in a high school lavatory...
Couturiers were the first to be charmed. Yves Saint Laurent showed a staggering array of snakeskins in his most recent collection, which featured a line of python-printed chiffon dresses (Mme. Pompidou took hers to Chicago last month and wore it with a gold ser pent belt). Givenchy's snaky stretch-wool suit is already being copied, scale for scale, and London Designer Jean Muir has a whole group of satin separates, all slithery with the python pattern. America's Adele Simpson and Bill Blass have embossed the markings onto vel vet and chiffon; Halston has gone...