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...officials generally reduce that figure, but even the most skeptical admit that there are countless thousands of part-time, or "plastic," hippies who may "drop out" only for a night or two each week. By all estimates, the cult is a growing phenomenon that has not yet reached its peak-and may not do so for years to come...
...Asimov feels that he must work even faster. He has been haunted ever since boyhood by the fact that the human brain reaches the peak of physiological development by the age of 16, after which it can only deteriorate. "My memory is not what it used to be," he says, "and some day the atrophy of the brain cells will overtake the benefits of my experience...
...moving ahead again," many dark spots remain. Despite massive stimulation to business through an easing of credit and a sharp rise in federal spending, industrial production has slipped four months out of the past five on the Federal Reserve Board index; in May, it fell 2% below its December peak. The nation's real output of goods and services, in the first three months of this year, missed its clockwork quarterly advance for the first time since...
...cost of mortgage loans rose to a 40-year peak and the construction rate of private new houses and apartments sank from 1,735,000 to 826,000 units a year...
...play. With the vision of a painter, he observes a group of kids as they run exuberantly, following the leader who jumps from screen to screen. He also explores the varied geometric patterns of hopscotch courts, and shows a group of boys fighting each other on a pyramid-like peak to be come. "King of the Hill." Kane's wittiest photography shows a contest of shadow tag seen from above. The children's heads are tiny, their shadows elongated and spidery, as the boy who is "it" proceeds to stamp them out, one by one. As his black...