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...supply is grown, the mice are a disaster. Blessed with sandy soil and cool, sun-shading ocean fog, in which the temperamental artichoke thrives, the country's annual crop normally exceeds 35,000 tons. But no longer. Downpours in the spring of 1967 left the normally quiescent beasties with little to do but hole up and breed; droughts this year then forced the hungry hordes of rodents onto the well-tended artichoke fields. Thus the Monterey farmers are losing up to 50% or more of their crops...
...time in many years, students are marching and fighting and sitting-in not only in developing or unstable countries but also in the rich industrial democracies. In the U.S., the movement has spread from the traditionally active, alert and demonstrative student bodies of the elite schools to many usually quiescent campuses...
...idea, Kaprow explains now, was to create an intentionally sloppy, three-dimensional roomful of random art, in the abstract expressionist mode of the 1950s, when the wall-filling action canvases of Jackson Pollock were already being referred to as "environmental painting." Kaprow was also reviving and extending the then quiescent Dadaist tradition. One of his inspirations: the wondrous Merzbau assembled by German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters between 1924 and 1933. It consisted of rooms full of wood and plaster along with oddments culled from junk heaps, including a Sex-Murder Cave, which housed a red-stained bro ken plaster cast...
Bottles & Songs. The ever-present rivalry had been comparatively quiescent during the two-year reign of Premier Paul Vanden Boeynants' center-right coalition government. Then Louvain's Flemish students, who make up 55% of the enrollment, demanded that the linguistically divided university be broken up and the French-speaking part moved into Wallonia (a linguistic frontier drawn up in 1963 places Louvain seven miles inside Flanders). Moving the French-speaking students and professors to Wallonia would cost an estimated $140 million and seriously damage the prestige and resources of the 543-year-old institution...
...latest American step is a strategic error. Even "thin" U.S. systems may encourage the Russians to thicken theirs. The U.S. would feel compelled, no doubt, to keep up--and speed up what has been a fairly quiescent arms race. Affluent America can afford this no better than the frugal Soviets as McNamara openly admitted...