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...California youth expressed the dominant mood: "This whole thing is playing it lazy-it's a place to pass a smooth couple of days." Nevertheless, in its final days, the festival turned tedious for many as occasional rain and lack of sleep took their toll...
...such temptations have been resisted, it may be because Hiroshima and Nagasaki have assumed the proportions of myth-needed and useful myth. This fact does not justify the toll of dead and wounded, nor lay their ghosts in the national conscience. Yet it gives them meaning. Horrifying as the ghosts of those victims are, there is no comparable meaning in the 135,000 ghosts of Dresden, that totally vengeful, ultimately useless crime of conventional warfare. But Dresden was a massive effort, involving 2,750 bombers. The essential terror of the nuclear bomb is that it is so small, so sudden...
...frame houses splaying out from Springwood Avenue, live most of Asbury Park's 8,500 blacks. Last week the tranquillity was shattered by four nights of black riots that began on the West Side but spilled briefly across the tracks to white Asbury Park as well. The toll was 190 injured, 174 arrested and some $4,000,000 in damages to stores and residences...
Since the U.S. completed its withdrawal from Cambodia in late June, the fighting in Indochina has fallen off drastically. The U.S. death toll for the week ending July 4, for example, was 61, the lowest in 31 years. The comparative battlefield lull was overshadowed, however, by intense diplomatic activity. As Secretary of State William P. Rogers wound up his 15-day, five-nation Asian tour, he spoke of "further political initiatives that might be taken for peace." These words, combined with other comments by U.S. officials, led the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu to wonder if Washington was thinking...
...supposed to repel burglars and muggers; high-crime areas now teem with Doberman pinschers and German shepherds. But who protects the innocent from the protectors? Last year Tokyo recorded about 5,000 complaints of dog bites from newsboys, mailmen, salesmen and bill collectors. New York's bite toll hit 25,000. Britons are so worried about rabies that they have barred all dogs and cats from entering the country. The isolation period for the pets now in quarantine under old laws has been extended from six months to a year. Rabies is an even worse worry in Lima, Peru...