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Lawsuits continue to spew from Scott's office in Springfield like smoke from a busy factory in East St. Louis. He is prosecuting 102 minor offenders, including several suburban garbage dumps. He is also interpreting the law in new ways. He insists, for example, that "the type of service a public monopoly renders the public is a factor in determining its rates." On this ground, he is trying to block Chicago Commonwealth Edison's request for a rate increase; the utility's power plants still burn coal with such high sulphur content that the company admits they...
...terminal, never noticing the large, fiberglass cubicle recently built there. Inside that plastic cage sprawls Astroflash, the enormous IBM computer which, after great financial success in Paris, has invaded America's largest city. When equipped with a subject's place and exact time of birth, the mechanical monster will spew out an "astro-psy-chological portrait" and "an astralcalendar for the coming six months," at the rate of 1100 lines a minute. Trilingual as well as speedy. Astroflash I'l (its parent and predecessor remains in Paris) embodies, as the sign outside says, "a marriage of the ancient...
...quite obscure causes, Californians tend to ignore broader and more clamorous social issues. Though long among the nation's most ardent conservationists, they have nonetheless allowed untold pollution and desecration of their land, air, waters and wildlife. The nearly five million automobiles that churn through the Los Angeles megalopolis spew exhaust from 8,000,000 gallons of gasoline every day ?thanks in large part to the inefficient smog-control devices that the cars are required to carry...
...expose yourself in the market-place; spew up your guts for the inspection of the least passer-by, vanish like water-like snow falling on a dark river...
...number and kinds of punches each boxer threw. Then he reduced the field to the 16 top-rated heavyweights, from bare-knuckled John L. Sullivan to fancydancing Muhammad Ali. He fed all the information into a National Cash Register 315 computer. After proper programming, the machine was ready to spew out a blow-by-blow account of a mythical fight...