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There were six other Americans digging, and after we deciphered the headline we dropped our shovels and started whooping and dancing and hugging each other and rolling in the dirt. The blight was gone. But when the elation had passed, one of us--I think it was an accountant's son from Cleveland--looked at each of the others soberly and said, "What are we celebrating? The country has fallen apart...
City folk are hopeful that Carter will carry out his promises to do something about the staggering problems of blight and crime. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young foresees a new era of cooperation between the cities and the national Government. But others are skeptical about whether Carter can do much to reverse urban decline. Said Psychologist Wayne Oates of the University of Louisville: "The great poverty in America today is not for money. It's not for buildings. It's for ideas. People are tired of the old solutions...
Meanwhile, the blight of fair weather in the West has proved to be a bonanza for ski areas in the Northeast. These areas are operating at near capacity as vacationers switch to New England and upstate New York. To cap their good luck, last Wednesday some ski areas in the Northeast were hit by a near blizzard...
...with all Bright operations, the 400,000 Here's Life volunteers around the country use Blight's 77-word version of Christianity, the Four Spiritual Laws. Law 1: "God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life." Law 2: "Man is sinful and separated from God" so he doesn't know about Law 1. Law 3: "Jesus Christ is God's only provision for man's sin . . ." Law 4: "We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan...
...save the English language from the galloping blight of jargon, pomposity, staleness, imprecision, ugliness and plain nonsense? Not authorities or institutions, writes Edwin Newman. The only hope is "individuals or small guerrilla groups" who practice "rebelliousness, buccaneering and humor...