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There are no paved roads, despite 30 years of U.S. administration. Electricity comes in irregular spurts. There is no long distance telephone service. The people seldom pay their bills. Once proficient fishermen, the islanders of Ponape and, indeed, of the rest of Micronesia rarely put to sea any more, preferring to collect a range of federal social benefits. (Though its waters are among the world's richest tuna grounds, Micronesia imports more than $ 1 million worth of canned fish annually.) Says Ponape District Attorney Minor Pounds, a native Texan: "If we're going to have a Western society...
...have left their ecological mark. Giant African snails brought in by the Japanese as wartime survival food now ooze all over the island. America's legacy is tangantangan, a spindly ground cover planted after the war to prevent erosion. Saipan's soil was saved, but, alas, it seldom is visible since the tangantangan has voraciously rooted throughout the island...
...David Dalquist's photographic essay of the South End with "texts" in the Tuesday, January 10 Crimson vividly demonstrates that The Lampoon has not monopolized the talents of the social Neanderthals in our midst. I have seldom felt that the vagaries of The Crimson warranted my serious or prolonged attention, but Mr. Dalquist's contribution to today's Crimson requires at least a passing comment...
DIED. S.L.A. Marshall, 77, a towering military historian who analyzed all the wars of modern America; after a long illness; in El Paso, Texas. "Slam" Marshall was seldom far from the sound of gunfire. After growing up in El Paso, he became a combat infantry officer in World War I. He covered the Spanish Civil War, and during World War II, he became the chief combat historian in the Central Pacific and Europe. Out of his experiences in the Korean War came his most esteemed books, The River and the Gauntlet and Pork Chop Hill. His writing was distinguished...
...acquired its cast of heroes and poètes maudits. But not enough has been written on how photography acts on the real world: how it has altered our perceptions, our social relationships, our sense of reality. Such questions are fundamental. They haunt photographic criticism. But they seldom materialize as issues, despite the obvious fact that photography, and not painting, provides our chief visual images of the world and of ourselves...