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...formation after another of C-141s lumbered 1,000 ft. overhead at 125 m.p.h., spewing parachutists from both sides, as escort planes darted above them. It was an explosion, an inundation, a blizzard of men from the sky, lasting less than five minutes...
...public traffic in what used to be respected as intimate lore is conspicuous and feverish enough to have provoked some thought about the implications of the trend. Something more than a mere departure from decorum must be involved when a society begins to live habitually in a blizzard of under-the-rug sweepings. Only the simple-minded could shrug it off as nothing more than a side effect of the open and permissive social mode that emerged in the 1960s. Letting it all hang out may be refreshing and even healthy, but not under all circumstances; neither honesty nor candor...
...Navajos who returned from the terrible "Long Walk" of 1864, when the U.S. cavalry herded 8,000 tribesmen 400 miles, from northern Arizona to Fort Sumner in eastern New Mexico. When snow piled up higher than the hogan roof a dozen years ago, she rode horseback through the blizzard eight days to watch over her sheep, losing half her hearing to frostbite. Ella Deal's life, too, moves to nature's seasonal and spiritual rhythms...
Real reform is going to take more, but the resistance to it remains formidable despite glaring proof of the need. The Attica tragedy, for instance, blew up a blizzard of promised changes. Yet a U.N. human rights study group that inspected prisons last year reported that penal administrators seemed to have learned nothing at all from Attica. Did February's Santa Fe explosion produce new resolve? The only notable plan to emerge in the wake of that violence has been New Mexico's decision to build a new maximum-security prison...
...college graduates, will study under a total of 44 visiting lecturers, including Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (the only foreigner scheduled), Science Fiction Writer Sakyo Komatsu, Tea Ceremonies Master Soshitsu Sen and Matsushita's electronics competitor Masaru Ibuka, founder of the Sony Corp. After three years of this lecture blizzard, students will be dispatched "to grasp some of the realities of life" in offices and factories and will be sent for six months to a foreign country of their own choosing...