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Coal and the Environment: Does the Industry Really Care?

This year’s conference on Coal and the Environment, sponsored by the National Coal Association, the industry’s lobbying group, provided the annual showcase for promotion — both of the industry, and the manufacturers who serve it. Purveyors of products ranging from executive helicopters and the latest

Another Mola family (Nicola Lacerignola, center)

Immigrants: Roots (Part II)
The Making of a New Immigrant Family

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Natale and Rosa Maria DeCarolis, both in their mid-forties, uprooted their family two years ago to immigrate to the United States. Ton years before, they had left their native Mola di Bari for an industrial town north of Genoa. They finally decided

Now that your hair is longer, you need Wella Balsam.

A Word From our Sponsor

November 20, 1972 London   Remember Macrobiotics? The Frug? The Animals? Baba Ram Dass, Millionaire Michael Brodie, and Wavy Gravy? What about smoked bananas, can-you-dig-it, and fa-a-ar out? Do DMT, STP, and LBJ ring a bell? Okay, then, how about lovebeads, RYM-II, the Diggers, and

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Conversations With Workers I, 1972

(RECITATION): I dedicate this song to the working man, for every man that puts in eight or ten hard hours a day of work and toil and sweat, who’s always got somebody looking down his neck trying to get more out of him than he

The Product

Havamarawanna: A Floating Alternative Nursery

July 21, 1972 Magic Center Western Asphalt Jungle (Amsterdam) At 41, Kees Hoekert claims to be the greatest and most skillful dealer of marijuana in the Western Hemisphere. Kees Hoekert, 41-yearsold, and the best marijuana dealer in the Western Hemisphere. He may be right. As

Apartments and townhouses being constructed next to each other.

The New Towns of Paris: Reorganizing Suburbs

Paris, France   May, 1972 To get to Parly 2, one drives west of Paris and through a short stretch of typical French countryside almost to the edge of the thick forest of Versailles before turning down a road that opens abruptly onto U.S. suburbia.

The aged in particular observe this annual pilgrimage to the island of Kusu, an hour's boat ride from Singapore. Legend says Tua Pek Kong; the god of prosperity once performed a miracle here. The island itself is not much bigger than the temple and worshippers come with offerings of chicken, pink dyed eggs, fruits and flowers and pray for luck, health and prosperity.

The Aged In Singapore: Veneration Collides With The 20th Century

Singapore December, 1971 If you have the feeling Big Sister up there is watching you, she is. She also has her eye on the Pheng family and recently signified her approval to granddaughter Swee Lan’s marriage. Last week, everyone turned out for her birthday party.

Lively downtown Tel Aviv at night. (E. Pikovsky Ltd. photo)

Israel’s Second Generation New Towns

For many tourists and resident foreigners, Jerusalem is the place to be in Israel. Among the countless emotional touchstones and historical reminders in and around its ancient walled “old city” are important shrines of three major religions: the excavated western (“wailing”) wall of the Hebrews’

Play Stereotypes

Play Stereotypes

April 7, 1971 fun for the whole family Are you a monopoly Bankrupt? Tired of PARCHESE?  Making enemies at DIPLOMACY? play Stereotypes Try OPPOSITE:   COMPLETE THE CATALOGUE: The AMERICAN isloud,rich,friendlyHe tells tall tales The ENGLISHMAN isquiet,hard up,aloof.He is given to understatement. I am a