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...worst when I come out of a nap, and I can see with some kind of crystal clarity the existential absurdity of life. You can never do one-millionth of what's available. There's a sense of lassitude and emptiness about it all. And there's a clarity about it, which doesn't last very long, when I think, oh God, it isn't worth it. It's almost like seeing life from a photograph in the planetarium, where the earth is a small thing in all that space...
...attempting to come to grips with the kinds of domestic problems that Nasser shunted aside as he pursued his costly war with Israel and his grandiose visions of Pan-Arab unity. Egypt last week reached a population of 34 million (early this year, Israel proudly welcomed its three-millionth citizen). At present, Egyptian babies are being born at the rate of one every 40 seconds. Sadat is trying to meet some of the inevitable problems that this overbreeding creates, particularly in a nation where much of the population is crowded into a narrow ribbon of verdant land astride the life...
Next week the airlines will carry the millionth passenger to travel on a 747. Pan American World Airways, which has the largest fleet of the planes, has been flying them 64% full but can come out ahead with only a 40% load. Largely because of the 747, Pan Am turned in a profit in May after eight months of losses. Trans World Airlines calculates that the cost of carrying one passenger for one mile comes to 2.3? on the 747, compared with 2.7? on the Boeing 707 or Douglas DC-8. The big plane has done so well that some...
...this nation realize that the only way our problems can be solved is through men like John V. Lindsay? Is the white middle class going to buy the preachings of a few shrewd capitalists like Yorty, Charles Stenvig and Procaccino? If so, will the blacks, frustrated for the 15 millionth time, rise up in final, bloody revolt? I hope...
...substance, they said, was a bug-paralyzing insecticide called endosulvan and marketed as Thiodan. A sulfurous acid ester, endosulvan is described by its manufacturers, the Hochst chemical works just west of Frankfurt, as harmless to warm-blooded animals, including humans, even though one microgram (less than one three-millionth of an ounce) in a quart of water is enough to kill coldblooded fish...