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Almost three and a half centuries later, many Americans view the U.S. as something far less than a shining "Citty upon a Hill." To baffled foreign eyes, the nation that once roused hopes around the world now appears inexplicably torn by tension and dissension, its vast treasure squandered with a profligate's hand, its fabulous beauty pockmarked by hideous urban scars. Has the American Dream become the American damnation, a formula for selfishness rather than equality and excellence? British Historian Sir Denis Brogan flatly states: "This is not going to be the American century. Very few people are enamored...
...destroyed any possible balance between cars and other forms of transportation, such as subways and monorails. Though subways might be more efficient, cities have in effect been offered expressways virtually free. The lure has usually proved irresistible, and as a result cities?not to mention the countryside?have been torn apart. The car has not only wrecked the city physically but poisoned its air as well. Auto exhaust fumes account for about 60% of air pollution in the U.S., even with the addition of exhaust-control devices...
...Northampton, Mass., to celebrate his birthday with Daughter Julie and her new husband, David Eisenhower. The birthday dinner was a chicken casserole with broccoli and cheese, followed by a store-bought chocolate cake with 56 candles. Pat gave him a pair of cuff links -"All his cuff links were torn off in the campaign," she explained. There were ties, socks and handkerchiefs from Tricia, and from his staff a small bronze statue of an Irish setter in token of the dog they plan to buy him. The Nixon White House menagerie will also include Blanco, a dog left...
...torture of prisoners in their tribes, the women were capable of incredible cruelty. When Colonel William Crawford, a friend of George Washington's, was captured in 1782, it was the Indian women who pelted him with live coals, jabbed him with burning poles and, after a warrior had torn off the prisoner's scalp with his teeth, poured a shovelful of live coals onto his exposed skull while he was still alive. Even so, says O'Meara, "beneath her streak of savagery the Indian woman frequently revealed a tenderness and compassion that touched even the casehardened trader...
...dozen small parties erupt spontaneously in a dozen staterooms. A haggard haberdasher from Baltimore stumbles out of his cabin, glass in hand, looking for ice. "Whew," he says. "She needs two 20-year-olds-not one 40-year-old." Milgrim adopts a literary tone: "Liaisons are being formed and torn asunder faster than you can light a cigarette...