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...legend Texans are a grandiose breed with more than the natural share of megalomaniacs. But University of Texas Biochemist Earl B. Dawson thinks that he detects an uncommon pocket of psychological adjustment around El Paso. The reason, says Dawson, lies in the deep wells from which the city draws its water supply...
...recently as two years ago, $20 million production budgets were not uncommon; $5 million is now considered extravagant, and the average producer is lucky to raise half that much. Investment bankers, the industry's traditional financiers, long ago deserted what they assessed to be a sinking ship. Thus it is all the more surprising that with the motion-picture industry at its nadir, some of the most conservative and successful U.S. corporations are putting their loose cash behind a new-found belief in the future of movies...
...temporarily flooded Cleveland waste-treatment plant was pouring millions of gallons of raw sewage into Lake Erie every hour. Yet in spite of posted warnings, scores of bathers were blithely enjoying the waters. While the sight was enough to make a public health officer wince, it is not uncommon in the U.S. Swimmers everywhere recklessly expose themselves to pollution. Curiously, relatively few of them seem to get sick-or at least report any illness. Have the dangers of bathing in polluted water been exaggerated...
...concerns many ordinary Britons most is that British entry will mean greatly increased food prices as the country moves behind the EEC's high agricultural-levy system. Almost equally important is a premonition that many of the best things about Britain-the peaceful villages, easygoing work habits, the uncommon civility that graces British life-will be endangered by EEC membership. There is a positive dread that chattering Frenchmen would monopolize London's sidewalks, that garlic-eating Italians in careering Alfa Romeos would shatter the tranquillity of the rustic British countryside, and that those too-efficient Germans would brusquely...
There is an uncommon morning freshness to this movement, a buoyant atmosphere of hope and love along with the usual rebel zeal. Some converts seem to enjoy translating their new faith into everyday life, like those who answer the phone with "Jesus loves you" instead...