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Rapid urbanization has vastly complicated both transportation problems and their solutions. Urbanization is a global phenomenon (soon more than half the world's population will live in crowded cities), but it is nowhere more vivid than in the U.S., which is amid the sometimes painful process of jamming 85% of its population onto 2% of its land-an astounding change for a nation so recently rural. Hand in hand with this transformation has been the extraordinary spread of the auto: the U.S. auto population has tripled to 90 million in 20 years, is now growing eight times faster than...
...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE, by Frank Marcus, is an abrasive English comedy of cruelty about the games lesbians play. Beryl Reid, Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers are expert and subtle as three witches, and their vivid interpretations of the foolish and servile, the vain and the vile, stir up a cauldron of laughter...
...nitrogen, he cooled them to-320°F. and bombarded them with high-energy electrons that simulated the impact of solar-wind protons for a 14-day period. No glow was produced. When Sun removed the liquid nitrogen and rapidly heated the samples, however, they began to give off vivid and pulsating light. The Westinghouse physicist is now working on further laboratory tests to support his theory. He believes that it can also be confirmed by careful telescopic analysis of light emanating from the vicinity of the lunar terminator. If, as he suggests, that band of moonlight is noticeably brighter...
...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE by Frank Marcus is an abrasive English comedy of cruelty about the games Lesbians play. Beryl Reid, Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers are expert and subtle as three witches and their vivid interpretations of the foolish and servile, the vain and the vile, stir up a cauldron of laughter...
...company of 1,500 other interned civilians, most of them British and American missionaries or traders. Out of his wartime experience, Gilkey, now a professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has distilled a fascinating memoir called Shantung Compound (Harper & Row; $4.95) that is both a vivid diary of prison life and a theologian's mature reflection on the condition of man in times of stress...