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...begun using explosives to produce sound effects and shock waves in their campaign to unnerve a society that they regard as corrupt and doomed. Schools, department stores, office buildings, police stations, military facilities, private homes-all have become targets. So far, miraculously, fatalities have been relatively few. One small slip, however -or one bloodthirsty bomber-could run up a death toll that could easily rival a week's total in Viet Nam. If the bomb threat continues, that is almost certain to occur...
Billed as "The Great Grape Debate," last night's confrontation in Sanders Theatre between Larson and Marcos Munos, leader of the East Coast grape boycott, degenerated into the "Grapo Group Grope" as both sides promised not to slip into personal insults and then...
...sliding down, as at Reckingen in Switzerland last week. Highly unpredictable, slab avalanches occur when one cohesive layer of snow breaks free of the ground or of other snow layers. They can be caused by rising temperatures that send lubricating water between layers of snow, letting the white blanket slip like a quilt from the bed of a tossing sleeper. Exerting forces as great as 100 tons per square yard, such avalanches have been known to upend steel locomotives, push small bridges hundreds of feet from their pilings and rip up vast reaches of forest...
...civilization was mentioned. I experienced what Godfearing people of an earlier age used to describe as 'a call.' Yes, yes, I thought. Civilization is in danger and it's worth trying, if only to make people realize how fragile civilization is and how easily it might slip from our grasp. I went on eating smoked salmon and the whole plan came...
Cape Kennedy has suffered the most from the slowdown in the space program. Employment has dropped from 24,000 a year ago to 17,500 today, and "pink-slip psychology" lends a frantic tone to Friday night parties at the local Hilton. Houses that sold for $25,000 a year ago now bring $1,500 less. Space contractors organized an employment service and invited more than 100 organizations-life insurance companies, boat builders, even the CIA-to interview laid-off employees. They found 600 jobs for 2,000 men. One $15,000-a-year engineer wound up packing groceries...