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INTER-AMERICAN HIGHWAY: BRIDGE OF THE AMERICAS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A ride, in color, 3,000 miles down the highway from Laredo, Texas, to the Darien Gap in Panama, with sightseeing en route...
...shazam! A great black gap in the consciousness of Simone de Beauvoir is illuminated. You see, Simone, "femininity" is not just some poetic veil of man's invention, woven to trick ladies into washing dishes and minding babies. A woman isn't just a man with a dress hung on him. A woman (and Godard's film saturates an imbeclic title with frightening profundity) is a woman...
...profitable foreign lending and investing. Last week Commerce Secretary John T. Connor said that he had enough "assurances" from corporate chiefs to persuade him that the program will succeed. While businessmen have gone along with the President's plan, a number of them point out that the payments gap is caused neither by trade, which brought in a $6.7 billion payments surplus last year, nor by private investment, which was nearly offset by profits brought back home. The main burden on the dollar is the Government's $6.9 billion in foreign spending, and the biggest part of that...
...youths at Catoctin Mountain are a pathetic lot. One is Robert Collier, 16, a pale, skinny boy from Big Stone Gap, Va., who had hardly got settled in camp when he had to have 14 teeth extracted. Asked when he had last been to a dentist, he replied: "I ain't never been." Another is Ray Martin, 18, who hails from "a holler" near Isom, Ky., where he lived with his widowed mother, six brothers and sisters. At six, Martin was gathering coal in an abandoned mine shaft to provide the family's fuel. At 16, he went...
...This gap between intention and reality stems from a problem of social prestige: youngsters are under increasing pressure from parents and peers to enter the professions. Few will admit at the outset that they may not really be interested, are not bright enough, or lack the money for professional training. Probably more students should be steered into the technical track at the beginning. But too often the community college teacher is as prestige-conscious as his students, and tends to shun nonacademic assignments. "Psychologically, there's even more strain on the faculty than on the students," observes Lyman Glenny...