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...Chinese have good reason to be vigilant. Many of their people live in vulnerable adobe-type, tile-roofed homes that collapse easily during tremors. And the country shudders through a great number of earthquakes, apparently because of the northward push of the Indian plate against the Eurasian plate. Says Press: "It is probably the one country that could suffer a million dead in a single earthquake...
...Seoul, South Korea. Throngs of Korean, American, European and Japanese businessmen pile into cabarets and assorted pleasure domes. Then, just before midnight, the pleasure seekers rush home to beat the midnight curfew, and the lights start winking out. A few miles away, villagers desert quiet country lanes for tile-or thatch-roofed cottages. And a few miles beyond that, perhaps an hour's drive from the teeming capital and its 6.5 million people, U.S. and South Korean soldiers anxiously scan the dark, austere terrain of the Demilitarized Zone. All along the 150-mile-long DMZ, from concrete-hardened bunkers...
Local residents last night demanded that the Cambridge City Council tile legislation with the state to make taxation of private institutions mandatory and meanwhile to pressure Harvard and MIT to increase their "in lieu of tax" payments to the city...
...then--relief, North Station, The Boston Garden. A gleaming, glistening, brand new depot, underground, no less; a bold stop forward in transport engineering. Looks every much like the Back bay stations along the Green Line. Same white tile. Same casually elegant indirect lighting. Same lack of real appeal. Also large grainy back and white phonographs on the Walls evocative of the neighborhood upstairs. Lions (the circus, presumably), basketball players, ice skates (Orr's?). Idle speculation as to the subjects of the photographs when the Red Line is extended and Harvard Square has its own new station. A college of caps...
...Mike remonstrated with him, Marvin merely picked up a TV camera and shook it in Douglas' face as if it were a Brownie. Following a producer wielding a lollipop, Marvin made for the newsroom, hurled a typewriter through a partition, stomped on file cabinets and tore out acoustic tile so that he could swing on the steel beams above. His $2,700 rampage was finally stopped by a blowgun tranquilizer, and Marvin departed handcuffed to a stretcher. Said a shaken Douglas, hurriedly taking off his ape makeup: "You never know when they're going to revert...