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...retire, as she does each summer, to the solitude of her one-room cabin in the New Hampshire woods. There she can light her kerosene lamp, read the Guardian and her books about Karl Marx, and look across her vegetable garden to nearby Mount Chocorua-a 3,475-ft. peak she scaled four years...
Total System. Fuller prefers tapping the sun's "cosmically inexhaustible energy" or harnessing the tides, possibly in the Bay of Fundy. In addition, he would like to see all nations and continents hooked into a global energy grid, with electricity flowing efficiently across time zones to meet distant peak-hour demands. He envisions "a total-humanity sustaining system" that would decrease birthrates and increase longevity. In short, Fuller's poetic excursion was mind expanding, if not mind exploding...
Maintaining the American forces will naturally become drastically less costly than it has been; it should fall from a peak of almost $30 billion in 1969 through the current $12 billion to $3 billion in fiscal 1973, and perhaps only $400 million a year once reversion to adviser-only status is complete...
...Saigon, the U.S. Command announced American troops in Indochina now number 296,500, equal to the troop level four-and-a-half years ago. The peak level was 513,000 troops in April 1969. The total is due to drop...
...Today he types himself as a nostalgic eccentric. Once a symbol of status and romance, the convertible is well on its way to joining tail fins on the scrap heap. They account for only 1.5% of 1971-model sales, down from 1.6% in the 1970 model year and a peak 6.7% in 1963. The trend is toward an even lower percentage; American Motors stopped making cars with roll-down tops in 1968, and Ford may do the same in the next model year, which begins this autumn. "We are almost certain that this is the last year we will...