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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From East to West, West to East, the U.S. of today is knit together in an increasingly common culture that leaves plenty of room for individualism but little for the old separateness. In his Travels with Charley, an account of a trip around the entire continental U.S., John Steinbeck observed: "From start to finish, I found no strangers." Says Historian Daniel J. Boorstin: "Much of what people call provincialism is really a way of attacking this country for not being like Europe, or the Midwest for not being like New York. As a consequence of modern technology and higher standards...
...question now becomes, "How?" Or "Under what conditions? What meaures will be necessary for effective action?" These questions take into account the basic limitations of relying upon the conscience of large numbers of people, and of not being able to predict, and plan around, action taken by those whom we attempt to affect...
TIME also says the White Paper offers no solution. It is a strange criticism of a document that deals with the past to complain that it does not provide policy for the future. If we have presented an accurate account of how we got where we are today in Viet Nam, we have done as much as should be expected of 37 pages...
...Putting the pageantry of a Kennedy or a Churchill funeral into countless living rooms, is an achievement that the most moving newspaper description cannot duplicate; the sight of a young Dominican being shot in the back by a U.S. paratrooper can jolt the home viewer far more than any account of the same tragedy in print...
...Delmarva Power & Light, and Public Service Electric & Gas Co. recently teamed up to order two 1,100,000-kw. plants for a southern New Jersey site. Though nuclear power today provides less than 1% of the nation's electric energy, the Atomic Energy Commission expects that it will account for 25% of a much larger total...