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Ripped by two superhighways and three railway lines, the city is now a jumble of smoky factories whose fumes often shroud Mount Fuji in a brown pall. The port area of Tagonoura, once famed for its dazzling beaches, is a stinking cesspool. What has transformed Fuji is Japan's almost mythic urge for quick industrialization-with no environmental safeguards...
...consumer demand and almost runaway wage-price inflation. During the first quarter, the country's real output actually fell by 1%; retail prices have risen so far this year at a 7.7% annual rate. In one recent week, statisticians counted 286 increases in grocery prices. Telephone charges and railway fares are up, some London subway fares have doubled, and postage for a first-class letter will go up from 5d. to 7d. in January. The nationalized coal and gas industries have publicly warned that substantial rate increases are in the offing. Inflation, says Robert Carr, Secretary of State...
...reservoirs would give way. Countless Bay Area buildings would sink into the shifting alluvial soils on which they have carelessly been built; such soil can turn into quicksand during a quake. The entire region would be cut off from outside aid, as freeways, bridges and runways buckled and railway tracks twisted. Deaths would reach the hundreds-some say tens of thousands-and property damage some $30 billion...
...they want to be plumbers, let 'em. But when they go out on a job, they're gonna have to lift 200 lbs. of pipe like any other plumber." The basic idea of job equality gets an approving nod from Andy Anderson, 42, a publicist for Southern Pacific Railway Co. in San Francisco, but he thinks, "Those radicals are going too far. Let's face it: there are undoubtedly some women who want to castrate us." Los Angeles Adman Bob Kuhn says: "Women are jeopardizing all the gains they have made, and I also feel they are throwing away much...
...ceasefire also allowed newsmen to view the devastation wrought on the Egyptian side of the canal by Israeli bombing and shelling. Reported TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs: "In Ismailia, the towering twelve-story Suez Canal Authority headquarters looks like a giant piece of Swiss cheese, shredded with shell holes. The railway yards were a mass of twisted wreckage. Tall palm trees had been blackened by napalm or broken off by shellfire...