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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...environmental destruction is irreversible. Optimists argue that technology and will power can salvage the situation. To that end, Environment will describe the exciting ideas of architects, city planners, ecologists, engineers, politicians and plain people. These ideas will include, among many others, dispersing glutted populations, building new experimental cities, designing steam and electric autos, restructuring mass transit, recycling all kinds of waste -and in general making this world a more liveable place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 1, 1969 | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...example, into new methods of cutting down on pollution. Maybe we could give a similar advantage to other industries and tie it to how they use it. Let's say the automobile industry has some kind of tax incentive to look into other kinds of transportation like steam or electric cars. That might be the best way to solve the problem of auto-exhaust pollution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Natural Resources: The Education of Wally Hickel | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...Adkison and Ralph DeMeo, a couple of Florida carpenters who were earning $2.83 an hour a decade ago, joined to start A.D.H. Construction Co. The firm did extensive remodeling work, earned enough to begin building apartment houses. It recently moved into a Taj Mahal-like building, which has a steam room, sauna, exercise room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE HAMMERING HEADACHE OF HOME REPAIRS | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

Smoke seeping from a building may mean a fire or a broken steam pipe; a man sprawling in a doorway may be having a heart attack, or may be just sleeping off a bender. In trying to decide whether a situation is critical, the researchers say, "a person often looks at those around him to see how he should react himself. In general, it is considered embarrassing to look overly concerned, to seem flustered, to 'lose your cool.' A crowd can thus force inaction on its members by implying, through its passivity and apparent indifference, that an event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attitudes: Why People Don't Help | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...horse racing because "nine times a day you have something exciting happening. That's something most ball clubs can't guarantee these days." Win or lose, he says, "we promise that the fan will have a little fun." Even more, once Veeck gets around to installing the steam calliope that he recently bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: Barnum's Back | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

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