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This institutionalization of imagination has its roots in most unpromising soil. Publicity releases quote Disney as saying, or rather getting the concept across, "I don't want the public to see the real world they live in while they're in the Park. I want them to feel they're in another world." But this other world is always informed by Disney's background, brought to life in the view of Mainstreet USA as you enter the park. Here the basic unit of small town nineteenth-century America seems to epitomize for Disney all that is happy. Interestingly, these...
...campaign was a fiasco. The Catholics of Ulster were not then prepared to support the I.R.A.; the government of Ireland in the South was unwilling to tolerate a military invasion of British territory from its soil. By 1962, utterly humiliated, the I.R.A. called off the campaign...
...India has legitimate grievances: the cost of caring for 10 million refugees, $830 million by the end of March; the threat of large-scale communal turmoil in the politically volatile and hard-pressed state of West Bengal, where the bulk of the refugees have fled; the presence on Indian soil of large numbers of guerrillas who could become a militant force stirring up trouble among India's own dissatisfied masses; and finally, the prospect of a continued inflow of refugees so long as the civil war continues...
...orbit around the Red Planet, seeking out conditions and features that might support life and radioing their findings back to earth across more than 90 million miles of space. A capsule ejected from Mars 2 lay on the Martian surface, possibly equipped with instruments that could sample the soil and the atmosphere and detect the presence of life. And a second Mars-bound Soviet spacecraft was closing in; it too was presumed to carry a capsule capable of making a soft landing...
...border battles had broken out almost daily between troops of the two nations. The conflict that finally erupted last week along the 1,300-mile frontier was plainly big enough to raise the specter of a major conflagration on the subcontinent. The presence of Indian troops on Pakistan's soil escalated the dispute between the two nations to the point where full-scale war could erupt at any moment?a war that could also cause an uncomfortable confrontation of the major powers...