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...world's largest electric systems so close to total blowout. Public utility companies, which have encouraged customers to buy more appliances to consume more power, now plead that they must build more power plants to meet the increased need. Conservationists stress that more power plants will increasingly foul the already poisonous air. Partly because of the bad city air, architects design buildings with windows permanently closed. Thus massive air-conditioning systems must dangerously draw ever heavier loads of power-without, however, filtering out most of the pollutants. Unless the course along such a double helix of progressively contradictory demands...
...pried an 18-in. circular bronze medallion sculpture of Edgar Allan Poe's head from the shaft marking his grave. Stéphane Mallarmé was being too optimistic when he wrote The Tomb of Edgar Poe: "Let this granite at least forever be a boundary/To the foul flights of scattered blasphemy in the future...
...greenish pallor in young girls suffering the pangs of unrequited love, passed out of medical terminology when it was discovered to be nothing more than iron-deficiency anemia. Febricula, a "little fever" that lingered in some medical texts until 1947, was once thought to be caused by stale beer, foul odors and sewer gases. It has since been identified as a symptom of a variety of other-and more easily identified-viral infections of the respiratory tract...
Flare-Dps and Foul-Ups. Some flare-ups were inevitable−and some foulups. In Phnom-Penh, hand-lettered signs were pasted to several buildings one morning with a message addressed to Americans: "South Vietnamese soldiers have committed cruel acts on the Cambodian population−pillaging, violations of women, burning, killing. Now they do not want to leave our territory." Officials claimed that the signs were the work of Viet Cong sympathizers−though the Phnom-Penh regime has so aroused anti-Vietnamese feelings in recent weeks that almost anyone could have been responsible...
...worst foul-up occurred at the Mekong town of Kompong Cham, where Communists and Cambodians had been battling for several days. During the fighting, South Vietnamese A-l Skyraiders swooped down on the wrong side, killing ten Cambodians...