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...WHEN THE FIREWORKS ended, the real show began, as all these thousands of people got in their cars to drive home. A few cars got out early, but not many. Boom; the streets jammed up. The headlights below us lit up the street brilliantly, and for as far as we could see, there were backed-up cars fading slowly into the distance in a hazy coud of smog. Behind the hotel was a freeway with a tunnel, and the thing to do in L.A. when you're in a tunnel is honk your horn, so an endless echoing Waaaaaaa...
Viet Nam brought on a cultural civil war in the U.S.?a deep and basic fracture. The conflict within the immense baby-boom generation?the Americans who came of age just in time for Viet Nam ?almost amounted to this century's equivalent of the War Between the States. But now, here and there, are signs that the terrible poisons and destructive intractabilities of the time are yielding to some charity and acceptance. Many antiwar activists are learning a certain sympathy for the Viet Nam veterans that they never displayed before. Says Journalist Doug Kamholz, an antiwar radical...
Though Pihl said the boom in computer courses would seem to indicate a new interest in business, he added that the decrease in economics enrollment might contradict that view...
...into cruise missiles and Trident submarines. Northrop Corp., which co-produces the F/A-18 Hornet fighter, is already short of such specialized tradespeople as jig-and-fixture experts and plaster patternmakers. Says Donald Smith, director of the University of Michigan's industrial development division: "A recovering economy and a boom in defense orders could create the biggest industrial-demand crunch we've seen since 1941." Though the skills squeeze is hitting just about every sector of industry, the most worrisome shortages are looming in the machine-tool trades. Nearly all big manufacturing firms employ skilled people who work with...
...bombs have lain shelved for quite a while now, and a test is only a test, after all. Nor is such madness confined to the certifiable. Even the meekest citizen knows moments wherein he dreams of Armageddon. Whence otherwise could come such colliding terms as "population explosion" and "baby boom" but the amazing bicameral mind? It is a two-pole world, all right. It spins between those who refuse to see the bomb and those who can almost taste it. When suddenly a noise erupts in Baghdad, both heads turn, one envisaging a burst of glory and the other trying...