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...TIME'S Essay, "The Impact of the American Way" [July 22], is superb as far as it goes. But it is lamentable, if indeed not shameful, that our social institutions have failed to keep abreast of our technological leadership. It is small comfort that the rest of the world emulates our methods and longs for our goodies...
...society can tolerate inequality of opportunity resulting in illiteracy and joblessness is an American tragedy. That "democracy" of the marketplace in housing virtually excludes Negroes is equally tragic. Not until America can organize its technological society to allow all individuals to flourish will the "American Way" have its fullest impact...
...splendid coverage of the London crusade [June 10, July 15]. The reporting was extremely fair and accurate. I am convinced that this crusade made the deepest penetration of any of the crusades we have ever conducted anywhere. It may take a generation to analyze the full impact...
...Chick's Heartbeat. NASA Consultant Quentin L. Hartwig reported a fascinating example of the application of space research to earth-bound medicine. To record the impact of a speck of interplanetary dust on a man or vehicle in space, Engineer Vernon Rogallo devised an instrument so sensitive that it registered the force of a single grain of salt dropped less than one-half of an inch. Then, at the NASA Ames research center in California, Rogallo overheard a cafeteria conversation between two biologists: How could they record the heartbeat of a six-day-old chick embryo without piercing...
...Moscow, Leningrad and Alma-Ata, rerouting him to the industrial city of Krasnodar (pop. 312,000) and the Black Sea resorts of Batumi (82,000) and Sukhumi (70,000). The State Department protested the "arbitrary changes," but the Soviets, obviously afraid that Fatha would have too big an impact in the great cities, were adamant. They may have outsmarted themselves, because Batumi and Sukhumi at this time of year are often jumping-like the east coast of Florida in January...