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Consider L.A.'s notorious sprawl. Banham finds the city did not spread like a cancer to its present 455 sq. mi. Its precise shape was predetermined decades ago by the Pacific Electric Railway's network of rapid-transit tracks. Though critics frequently scoff that such sprawl makes L.A. seem like 100 communities in search of a city, Banham sees instead the excitement of diversity. The jumble of freeways that has replaced the old P.E. railway has maintained the diversity. Far from being destroyers of the urban texture, Banham says, the superhighways "seem to have fixed Los Angeles...
...some Western diplomats are talking boldly of a "three-three-three" timetable: three more months for the ambassadors to draw up the basic framework of the settlement, emphasizing free access between West Berlin and West Germany; three months for the West and East Germans to work out details on transit procedures and the like; and a final three months for the West Germans to ratify the treaties of Moscow and Warsaw, whose approval by the Bundestag hinges on a successful outcome of the Berlin talks...
...railroads in operating on almost Oriental time schedules. Appliance repairmen are as devoted to the mañana principle as Mexican peons: department stores promise delivery of goods in weeks rather than days; the Post Office makes the Pony Express seem like the very model of rapid transit. The wait for a dial tone or an operator can be a foretaste of purgatory. For some parts of industry, the process of slowing down may be just a matter of inefficiency and indifference. For the counterculture, with its commitment to a more organic way of life, it is a matter...
Such statistics invite a protest movement, and it fell to a long-haired, slim, intense youth named Saadya Marciano, 20, to organize it. Born in Marseille while his wandering father was in transit from Morocco to Israel, Saadya is one of nine children and a product of a Jerusalem slum called Musrara. He entered the army at 18, spent nearly half his seven months of service in jail, and was finally discharged as unfit. Since then, unable to get a job because of his service record, he has spent his time idling with other Arab-speaking Sephardic youths in Musrara...
...electrical appliances creates employment as well as demand for electricity. "The primary thing we need is jobs," he said. "That's how people get what they need to live." Howard P. Allen, vice president of the Southern California Edison Co., added that electric energy runs sewage pumps, mass transit and junk compressors: "The inescapable conclusion from these facts is that more, not less electricity will be needed if we are to save our environment...