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ominous. Three decades of upheaval and redirection have produced a new rural nation . . . almost. Metropolitan centers of commerce have been replaced by gleaming strip-cities, linear communities geared to the housing and servicing of the citizens of an agricultural economy. A imall number of favored great cities of the past have been carefully preserved and virtually enshrined as cultural centers; a large number hav© crumbled into great ghastly hulks,, incredible ghettoes utterly abandoned by most Americans but grimly dung to as the final refuge of a despairing and poverty-ridden minority of some twenty million citizens. These giant ghettoes, once proud cities, are now generally referred to as, simply, "the Towns." As a contrast to the national gloom and depression of the seventies and early eighties, when the nation lost its prominence in the world markets, America has turned ha technological genius into the perfection of agricultural technique® and has become the grocer of a world slowly falling into piecemeal starvation.
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