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...root of the problem is education. Many of the immigrants are highly educated and competent. Some are not. And that is enough to give rise to prejudice. Also, the immigrants, though competent, may have very little knowledge of the British way of life. Here Indian immigrants, with a hundred years of British rule behind them, have a very definite advantage over the West Indians and Pakistanis. (These three along with Cypriots, form the most important group of immigrants). It is in the school-room that these disadvantages are most glaring. Some Cambridge elementary school teachers find themselves trying to instruct...
Whatever the Freudian significance of hair and its style fluctuations, it seems probable that the root causes of the new trend are neither deep nor esoteric. Any understanding of it must begin by making a distinction between the hippie and the respectable non-hippie with longish hair...
...reorganization would go a long way toward improving the Guard's readiness for foreign emergencies. It would not, of course, cut to the heart of the question: state control. In 1903, after disastrous results with the militia in the Spanish-American War, Secretary of War Elihu Root vainly sought to eliminate the states' role and create a reserve of militiamen controlled entirely by the Federal Government. In 1948, a Defense Department committee under Assistant Secretary (and later Secretary) of the Army Gordon Gray urged much the same. There is much to be said for this federalized-militia approach...
...suggestion behind these questions goes to the root of Marshall McLuhan's theory that "the medium is the message." McLuhan, the communications gadfly who wrote The Gutenberg Galaxy and Understanding Media, is the proponent of some slap-happy notions (The "jazz babies" of the 1920s caused the Depression by not caring about work). But his most fascinating idea is that television is a "cool, low-intensity" medium that projects a fuzzy image, compared with "hot" print and film. This means that the TV image demands the viewer's involvement by requiring him to complete the picture himself through...
...South China Sea, midway between Saigon and Danang, it is fighting what the Pentagon calls "the intermediate war." That is the layer of the war that lies between the glamorous big-unit battles and the paddy-level process of pacification, and combines a little of both. Its aim: to root the Viet Cong headmen, tax collectors and policemen out of the Binh Dinh villages that they have so long owned...