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...mind's eye by the vision of the tall ships ghosting up New York Harbor. There was also a valid occasion for some old-fashioned Yankee Doodle pride. For the first time in the 75-year history of the honors, all of the Nobel Prizes went to Americans???six men won or shared the science awards, and Saul Bellow capped a distinguished career of 32 years by winning the nomination for literature...
...intervened between the voyages of England's Trollope and Spokane's Mulligan. Americans are still insatiable travelers; it is still hard to find a bathroom in Santa Fe?or just about anywhere else during the travel season. According to a benumbed corps of travel statisticians, more than 99 million Americans???nearly half of the nation?will be taking vacations this year in the U.S. The country cannot accommodate any more tourists than that because, for one thing, there will be an additional 18 million foreigners charging across the U.S. (in exchange for some 23 million Americans who are going abroad...
...presented himself as an optimistic, healing, Godfearing man who believed in America and could bind up the nation's wounds. Audiences responded warmly, if not emotionally, to his basic speech that the Government ought to be as good as the American people are. And his message was that all Americans???welfare recipients and welfare workers, black civil rights activists and white segregationists, hardhats and students?are good people. Despite opponents' criticisms that he was two-faced, he almost invariably took the same stand before all audiences. He might fuzz his position on some issues, or omit Martin Luther King...
...first remained adamant against curtailing his freewheeling travel and politicking. His voice husky after his scare in San Francisco, Ford declared on returning to the White House that he did not intend "to cower in the face of a limited number of people ?out of 214 million Americans???who want to take the law into their own hands. We're going to stand tall and strong in this confrontation with people who don't represent...
...Viet Nam? We do everything wrong. The United States is not fit to be a world leader. Let's turn inward and handle our own problems." We were escaping from that usual American ideal of trying to do our best, trying harder, if I may borrow from Avis. Americans???many decent Americans???just began to doubt their senses...