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...While the government is patting its own back, while comedians think it the greatest subject for laughs since mothers-in-law, and while the British public soak in the propaganda about it being "for the good of our society"-surely people can see that the Breathalyser test [Oct. 20] is no different than being forced to take a lie detector test for a suspected crime, and making the results admissible evidence in court. So much for democracy...
...towns" policy. While about 300 planned communities are now under way across the country, most are merely glorified housing developments. Only three-Reston, Va., Columbia, Md., and Irvine, Calif. -are nationally recognized as new towns. Because they must show a profit, however, even these will not be able to soak up more than a handful of low-income people. Without eminent domain and the resources of a government, the obstacles to building a new city are enormous. To acquire land for Columbia without driving prices to the sky, for example, developers had to use all kinds of cloak-and-dagger...
When the annual step-by-step reductions begin next Jan. 1, U.S. consumers stand to pay lower prices for many imports-if inflation and middlemen do not soak up the tariff savings. The wholesale price of a $300 Japanese motorcycle will decline to $297 in 1968, finally level out at $286 in 1972. Other reductions will be substantial. Tariffs will fall from 1210 to 60 a gallon for beer, from $1.02 to 510 a gallon for Irish and Scotch whisky. Duties will come down 50% or more on such items as silk scarves (to 16%), diamonds over 1 carat...
...species of the genus Cissus), though not a true ivy, is the type commonly found on Yard buildings. The psychedelic brew is prepared by taking a fistful of the bark strips, cleaning them and then sterilizing them in boiling water for ten minutes. The clean strips are left to soak for a day in about a half-gallon of cold water. After filtering, a teaspoonful of the water is claimed to send the drinker to a heaven of rich colors...
Perhaps we should consider what Tennyson wrote in Locksley Hall Sixty Years After. "Is it well that while we range with Science, glorying in the Time./City children soak and blacken soul and sense in city slime...