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...using their fireplaces, the tangy aroma of burning eucalyptus logs hung in the air. Only a few flurries of snow have dusted the highest mountains of New England, though by last week the first real blast of winter had struck the Rocky Mountain and upper Plains states. Inhabitants of Rapid City, S. Dak., glided through the streets on skis after the storm dropped up to three feet of snow from California as far as the Great Lakes...
...rapid changes being introduced have apparently discomfited some and angered others whose families were touched by the purge of radicals (experts believe 25% of all Communist Party officials were affected). If the modernization drive should falter in the 1980s because of a huge crop failure, an unexpected drop in oil production or an inability to pay for Western technology, a radical counterforce might re-emerge in China. In that case, the dissidents would only have to look back to Mao's writings for an extensive critique of Teng's policies. Mao would also remind them: "To rebel...
...hopes of pioneering in China (other firms will also surely be invited in) got a crucial lift last October, when Pan Am Chairman William T. Sea well had a meeting in Peking with China's Deputy Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who is the regime's leading proponent of rapid development...
...City Council seems to be behind Danehy, though it is not a unified chorus of support. Councilor Saundra Graham, for example, is a long-time supporter of rapid transit efforts and has opposed the mayor's stand on the issue. The other councilors--save Frisoli and Alfred E. Velluci who side with Danehy--seem undecided at this point, despite their vote to join the lawsuit. If it comes down to a question of "extension to Alewife Parkway or no extension at all," the vote is bound to be close...
With all of the exaggerated, alarmist claims of rapid change overpowering our society, it is a pleasure to see controlled research on social change in the Middletown III study...