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Untold Truths. While it continued, economic growth solved domestic social problems almost automatically; this allowed the postwar titans to play their roles-Adenauer to bring a shattered Germany back into the West, De Gaulle to play savior to a nation torn first by war and then by withdrawal from Algeria. Yet over the past year or two, real growth in the industrial nations has faded. It has been replaced by mere inflation-now vastly stimulated by the rising cost of oil and other natural resources. As growth disappears, social issues reemerge. Britain, where a coal miners' strike over government...
...until April 16 that Nixon finally discussed with his Attorney General his knowledge of probable crimes by White House aides. That conversation was initiated by Richard Kleindienst, then Attorney General. Moreover, the evidence of the transcripts (see excerpts beginning page 20) shows time and again a President torn between trying to let the truth come out and then agreeing to some fresh device or attempt to avoid just that. His disclosures on April 16 seem to have come only because so many of the conspirators were talking to the Watergate prosecutors. Clearly, the cover-up was going to be exploded...
...restore some of his lost luster with a new single called Ragged Old Flag, which plays on America's patriotic wish to believe in itself, Watergate or no. Against the background of snare drums, banjos and a reverential chorus, Cash tells how the flag was shot up and torn at the Alamo and Chancellorsville, and then intones...
...Indian equivalents of American suburbanites, but in India there is no suburban isolation. Cross-caste encounters occur everywhere, and these make the film far more telling than the many documentaries that have simplistically contrasted starving millions with polo-playing aristocrats. Each encounter reveals the men to be torn between the Indian society still found among the poor and the increasingly pervasive Western society. The men in the film have come very close to abandoning their culture...
...they're talking to a prospective student who's torn between Harvard and North Carolina A & T. Most students who apply to Harvard are also considering two or three of the Ivy schools, the University of Chicago, Amherst or Stanford. All of them include the same categories of institutional racism that characterize Harvard...