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...Fernando Valley, a municipal crazy quilt that has managed to absorb almost 1,000,000 densely packed residents without turning into a cohesive city. The Valley's loudest voice is a giveaway newspaper, the Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet, which covers the area as comprehensively as smog. In 1960 the Cowles Newspapers group (eight dailies in three states and Puerto Rico) invaded the Green Sheet's domain. Cowles bought the Valley Times, an undistinguished daily with 50,000 paid circulation, and spent three years trying to boost it into the big time. Circu lation eventually rose...
...departure, the Los Angeles political smog seemed to be lifting for Rocky. A Rockefeller reception scheduled for some 500 drew 1,100 instead. Rocky and Happy, who had planned to spend an hour in the receiving line, were mobbed by enthusiastic handshakers and well-wishers for half an hour longer. Even Senator Goldwater's children, Los Angeles Stockbroker Barry Goldwater Jr. and Housewife Mrs. Thomas Ross of suburban Torrence, turned up to say hello. And when Rocky mounted the platform to urge Republican unity, the hall rang with cheers. Grinned Rocky later: "It couldn't have worked...
Pomegranate Jam. What Sunset's got is an idealized picture of the West in which the ugly smell of smog is displaced by the fragrance of burning charcoal, and the passionflower vine blots out the sight of the freeway traffic jam. Sunset's horizon is limited to its subject matter, and its subject matter is limited to four categories: Western Gardening, Western Homes, Western Food and Western Travel...
Thornton believes that atomic energy will be used to melt icecaps, explore space, turn the wheels of industry, and even change the weather so that citrus trees can grow in Central Park and the smog problem in Los Angeles can be solved. Newspapers and magazines will be transmitted by radio and either stored on tape or printed on receivers right in the living room. Pocket-sized communications devices will keep everyone in instant touch, and physical ailments will be diagnosed by computer and cured in many cases by replacing worn-out parts with factory-made ones. Money may be eliminated...
...many a modern city dweller who lives under a pall of smog, smokes incessantly, worries about fallout and sprays his flowers with pesticides, possible causes of cancer seem to close in on all sides. "It pleases many to think of cancer as a necessary concomitant of civilization," says Scottish Physician C. S, Muir, "a penalty to be paid for the abandonment of the rustic simplicity of a bygone age, a toll to be exacted for the convenience of the automobile and the pleasures of the cigarette." Even doctors dream of some remote part of Africa or Asia, "where, removed from...