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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three inches tall." This episode is filmed and discussed by reporters man-handled by the military in Vietnam and edited at home by men consumed by the desire for "balance." Unfortunately, balance and accuracy are severely antagonistic. Instead of the balance of 365 five-minute bits, we would probably prefer an accurate, expansive evaluation of all these facts which have been presented as if they were equally important and commanding. The American desire for visible accomplishment demands a daily spectacle of military activities: hills taken are more important than towns lost. The fundamental fluid nature of all the military operations...
...judges, who are from different nations and earn $30,000 a year, seem to spend as little time as possible in windy Holland. Privately, a few concede that they would prefer a warmer climate such as the French Riviera, where several have villas. In a memorandum to the U.N., they argue that the palace, "while a noble monument, is totally un suitable" and that The Hague has never become the world law capital that idealists once envisioned. Embarrassed, the Dutch government has renewed an offer of a new site plus $12 million to ward construction of a new building. Meantime...
...resistance movement has spread far and wide. The Pentagon has just announced that it will stop serving beef stew in military mess halls next year because it costs too much to prepare. Instead, troops will get more hamburger or meatballs (which they prefer anyway). In another move prompted by price increases, President Nixon last week asked Congress to raise social security benefits by 10% and to provide for automatic increases in the future geared to the cost of living...
There is no doubt that the SST, like the jets before it, will lure more passengers into the air. A recent survey conducted for TWA revealed that two-thirds of all passengers responding would prefer to fly supersonically, and 56% would pay a premium of $50 to do so on a 2,000-mile flight. Still, each SST will cost more than most airlines earn in a single year. Even now, the airlines are stretching the tight money market to pay for the new generation of subsonic jumbo jets and airbuses, and smaller lines only wish that the SST would...
...girl who dares to. "I" is Freud's good old superego, self-recriminating, doing society's work even when society itself has lost its enthusiasm to play enforcer. It is the "I" that has the last word. The closing sentence of the novel reads significantly: "I prefer to suffer, I think...