PLAIN PEOPLE: A Modest Proposal
In the world's largest city last week, toward the middle of the 20th Century after Christ, five years after the Great Blitz, in the fifth month of the Atomic Age, an eight-year-old boy was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. Said London's child:
"Alive."
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