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Time and again when jobs that meant real paychecks have only been hinted at, thousands have turned out early at the opportunity. Many useful things need to be done to make our lives more civilized. Public service jobs-or the Government as the employer of last resort-are good for people who hold those jobs, and for the rest who are working...
...foreigner is led away to "a special lounge smelling of camphor," where eating a meal feels "like indulgence in a solitary vice." There are also special stores, exhibits and train compartments, an organization that handles all problems from providing servants to air tickets, and even a beach resort where, except for top bureaucrats, the Chinese are rigorously excluded. What all this indicates to Leys is the obsessive official fear that the masses might be contaminated by the ideas of outsiders...
...proposed bill is likely to become law some time next year. The need for atomic power in a U.S. grown dangerously dependent on imports of foreign oil is simply too obvious. During the campaign, former Nuclear Engineer Carter argued that the U.S. should regard atomic power as a "last resort." His support of the bill shows that he recognizes it is time to call on that last resort, especially since his own Administration forecasts a need for an additional 320 plants by the year...
...brothers eventually quarreled. Ervil wanted to turn Los Molinos into a beach resort, while Joel envisioned a simple, self-sustaining community. Moreover, Joel, unlike Ervil, thought that a separation of church and civil law was essential. Kicked out of the First Born Church in 1970, Ervil started his own sect, the Church of the Lamb of God, in San Diego. He also began writing tracts claiming the authority to execute anyone who refused to accept him as God's representative. Less than two years later, Joel was shot dead in nearby Ensenada, Mexico...
...police grabbed Son of Sam just before he could claim even more victims in even more spectacular crimes. David Berkowitz told them why he had placed that semiautomatic rifle in his car on the night he was captured. He said he planned to drive out to the fashionable Hampton resort communities on Long Island and blast away at the crowd in a discotheque or nightclub. He was ready, he said with a smile, "to go down in a blaze of glory...