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...even put a bumper sticker on your car. All these ways of trying to stop 200 million voters from killing old ladies are legitimate. But they take time. For most forms of political agitation, this is all right. If in ten years the government decides it prefers mass transit to highways, it will just divert its funds away from the highways. But when the United States decided early this year that it was going to stop killing Vietnamese--contenting itself with giving General Thieu enough money and weapons to go on killing them himself--that didn't bring...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Karleton Armstrong | 12/11/1973 | See Source »

...good rule, even though people with a lot of property have more to do with choosing and influencing the elected representatives than other people. That smoking marijuana a should be legal doesn't justify blowing up a cigarette factory with all its workers inside. That money needed for mass transit goes instead to building highways doesn't justify putting studs on snow tires. It doesn't even justify withholding taxes--even if the highways are entirely useless--if elected representatives have a right to vote taxes...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Karleton Armstrong | 12/11/1973 | See Source »

...Criswell, an industrial-design instructor at Georgia Tech, put head lights, taillights, turn signals and a horn on his electric golf cart, passed the state safety inspection and now drives the vehicle to his local rapid-transit station every day. When Massachusetts' Berkshire Community College lowered class room temperatures to 63°, Jurgen A. Thomas began lecturing his drama class in a very collegiate (1920s) raccoon coat. And Paul Indianer, an insurance executive in Miami, has replaced his telephone-equipped Chrysler Imperial with a bicycle. "It's great exercise, and I'm amused at the stares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOOD: Cold Comfort for a Long, Hard Winter | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...Government would allow people who use mass transit rather than their cars to sell their coupons for cash. The rich and those who badly needed to drive could buy those coupons, possibly through official exchanges, if they were willing to pay the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Rationing, Tax--or White Market? | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...quarter sent the Crimson offense into their fatal tailspin. The contested play: a Stoeckel pass to McInally; the criminal: a stingy Yale defensive halfback named Charity; the crooked judge: an official who refused to call interference after Charity flattened McInally while (but not before) the Stoeckel throw was in transit; the result: in six plays a Yale touchdown. From then it was all downhill: 14-0, 21-0, 28-0, 35-0. Splash...

Author: By Charles E. Shepard, | Title: Tending the Flock | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

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