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...basic hope of the planners was that depressed neighborhoods could improve themselves with a minimum of outside professional direction. Model Cities is a confrontation-oriented structure, designed to experiment with a wide range of neighborhood assistance proposals, spin off the ones that work, and let the people of a selected area run the organization itself...
...want to read while eating-Mark Lane's Conversations with Americans consists of 32 tape-recorded interviews with Vietnam veterans that dwell on acts of brutality and the psychology of the armed forces which primes our soldiers for them. Reading this book is like taking a ride in a spin-dry Laundromat filled with blood. Approximately one-fourth of the way into the book, there remains nothing for the most naive reader to discover, and the same events keep repeating themselves in wave after inexorable wave of nausea. After a cycle or two of these atrocities, all the blood...
...instance, shut itself off if it begins to list dangerously, or if one of its wheels becomes stuck in a lunar rut. If the wheel cannot be worked free, the ground controllers can fire a small explosive charge, disconnecting it from the drive shaft and allowing it to spin freely. In fact, the vehicle can move either forward or backward with two wheels out of action on each side...
...model of the U.S. machine arrived in Houston last week for training purposes. The 800-lb. vehicle resembles a terrestrial dune buggy, and is scheduled to carry two Apollo 15 astronauts on a short test spin across the lunar surface next summer...
...also remembers the details. First, Shaw hit a state police car stopped on the shoulder of the road, which careened him safely through the bridge. Then he hit a wooden post, knocking it 35 feet, before crossing the center strip and completing a spin...