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While former President Richard Nixon was enjoying a barefoot walk in the Southern California sun last week, some of his presidential papers were facing the light of day as well. An estimated two tons of Nixon memorabilia were shipped from San Clemente to the Indianapolis offices of the Saturday Evening Post (now a homey revival heavy on nostalgia). The magazine, which still employs Nixon's daughter Julie Eisenhower as a consulting editor, hopes to use the borrowed documents for several articles on the Nixon presidency, including one feature by psychologists explaining the differences in public reaction to Watergate...
Down the gangplanks of the first rescue ships to reach Guam filed thousands of refugees who had fled the Vietnamese coast in small boats-barefoot, poor and bandy-legged, bringing little more with them than the soiled, flimsy clothing they wore, carrying infants and small bundles of belongings. They were not the endangered elite of a fallen nation, but instead plain soldiers, fishermen and gnarled farmers. One wealthy Vietnamese immigrant who watched them said superciliously: "You can tell by their accents that they are only peasants. They are the wrong people. They should never have come. They will only make...
...this part of town are no more than a dozen feet wide, there is still a steady stream of people, sacred Hindu cows, bicycles and bicycle rickshaws, and an occasional Toyota taxi. Everyone, even the upper-class women dressed in their flowing saris, wears sandals or else goes barefoot. During the summer monsoon the dirt roads in many parts of the city turn into permanent mud puddles and generally any clothing that reaches below the knees is assured of getting...
...community, and women haven't been one for an awfully long time. Bars, businesses, sports teams, structures for the development of male-bonding--we've heard it all again and again and haven't learned a thing from it. We've been paired off with men, one by one, barefoot and pregnant and isolated in our own separate living rooms. We've never even had our own ghetto, OK, so who wants to live in a ghetto, and moreover we've all got 18 forms of contraceptives and shoes and jobs. And we've still got no community, no solidarity...
...factories, workers are still encouraged to make technological improvements; technicians are recruited from the workshops and trained in factory schools. More than 1 million "barefoot doctors," so called to symbolize the once primitive nature of their job and equipment, are at work in the countryside. Another creation of the Cultural Revolution, they staff small production team clinics and seek to provide minimum care for everyone, rather than focus limited medical resources on expensive urban facilities...