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...Your article on Remotely Powered Vehicles [Sept. 11], which quotes a "high-level planner" as saying "It will be a great day when only machines make war and people make love," is tragically illuminating...
...rich morsels. Michel Tournier's The Ogre is engorged with ideas, which is one reason why it waddled off with France's 1970 Prix Goncourt. With unanimous praise from the critics ("The most important book to come out in France since Proust," said Janet Planner), the novel became a bestseller. It is not too difficult to see why. Its setting is World War II and with existentialism temporarily mined out. M. Tournier proves a clever exploiter of the current enthusiasm for mysticism and mythology...
...dotted with about 3,000 gray-shingle houses, 1,884 house lots were being planned for development this spring. Besides creating an almost suburban clutter, the projects endanger the limited local water supplies. Nantucket's Hummock Pond already is rank from sewage overflow. In the Vineyard, declares Planner Alex Fittinghoff, "once the ground water is polluted, this place is finished. There is no way we can double the summer population on this island...
Other trends in the Square continue stronger than before. Centuries-old traffic patterns--a city planner's nightmare--cause bumper-to-bumper line-ups on side streets as well as main thoroughfares. Old storefronts fall and are replaced by the modern facades of state or nation-wide retail chains. High-rise buildings make way for office space, apartment dwellers and the trappings of modern commercial affluence...
...Paris-based Trib (circ. 121,000) is no mere letter from home. It is far different from the daily described by The New Yorker's Janet Planner as "the village newspaper" of the American expatriate colony in Paris, the favorite of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. Increasingly it serves to inform a widespread audience about both the U.S. and the world. It is read with respect in the power centers of Europe, where English is now the second language. Nineteen copies a day go to Peking, and the Kremlin also subscribes. Editor Murray "Buddy" Weiss...