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...burgeoning industry of the East-the steam-wreathed polyethylene plant at Rumanian Ploesti; the scorching debate over Camus at Budapest's Hungaria Restaurant; the clanking Skoda automobile factory outside Prague; the student jazz joint in Warsaw where frugging and free verse give the lie to socialist realism. This is also the domain of the Western businessman, of the 500 Western firms which are engaged in cooperative ventures worth $800 million in Eastern Europe, and which will do many times that amount of business in the years ahead...
...seen the settler-cattlemen fights" and been wounded twice herself. In later years, she was forever "tearing around on horseback and climbing the Pecos," digging behind legends of Indian wars, gamblers and lawmen for the tales she wove into a score of chronicles (Old Jules, Slogum House) whose gritty realism never dulled her own feeling for the Plains, to which she returned every spring, "when I see a mare's-tail sky and I get so homesick for Nebraska it hurts...
...part of their new realism, the Soviet planners also softened the emphasis on heavy industry and called for more consumer goods. By 1970 they hope to double production of television sets, treble the production of refrigerators and quadruple the production of cars. Yet even if Soviet automakers reach the goal-some 800,000 units a year-output would still amount to little more than one-twelfth of the U.S. production...
Christian Realism. Ironically, the journal that once condemned Hitler now criticizes the U.S. in its confrontation with Asian Communism. Niebuhr and Bennett say that a nation at times has a "moral obligation" to check power with power, but they advocate a negotiated end to the fighting in Viet Nam, a position that some critics feel is surprisingly akin to the antiwar view the magazine opposed in 1941. "We hope we are still Christian realists," Bennett writes in the anniversary issue, "and that we are as 'realistic' in emphasizing the limited relevance of American military power today...
...Fronts. In Washington, where Johnson's peace offensive helped to blunt the urgent demands of the war, the Administration's present attitude is known as "the new realism." It has crystallized as a blend of idealism and self-interest based on the acknowledgment that the military war cannot be won in a vacuum, that it will only be successful to the extent that it helps liberate the Vietnamese from poverty, ignorance and exploitation. As the President said in welcoming Saigon's leaders to Honolulu: "We are here to talk especially of the works of peace. We will...