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Given the American combination of strength and spirit, it was historically inevitable that the U.S. should serve as a model to many nations in the world's postwar climb toward modernization and greater affluence. As models go in an imperfect world, it has been a good one. In that sense, the problem is not whether the world is too Americanized but whether it is Americanized enough: whether the many millions who have not yet been exposed to the material advantages of American society can be guided toward them without revolution and discord. Even if that happens, though, the world...
...prototype of an eight-legged, walking wheelchair now being evaluated by the University of California at Los Angeles for the use of handicapped children. The boxy gadget resembles an ungainly bug; yet it is capable of sophisticated locomotion. It can travel forward or backward, turn in its own length, climb steps, a 30° slope and an 8-in. curb, cross rough fields, and literally get a toehold in sand or muddy ground that usually bogs down a wheeled vehicle...
Grass, the designers decided, simply does not work; they replaced it with a variety of textured paving. Kids are going to climb all over the sculpture anyway; they made sure that it came with built-in handholds to make it easy for them. Ground-level planting beds are sure to be trampled; they were raised so that their rims serve as benches. Smooth surfaces invite childish scribbles; here they are rough to discourage them. Women are afraid of mugging; gay, indestructible plastic-globe lamps replaced the previous dim lighting. Finally, the existing plane trees were saved and new ones added...
...objects look like huge creative playthings. They hang from the ceiling, climb up the walls, stand in rows like great metal boxes or tilt like huge destroyer smokestacks. And they are causing a great deal of talk. So much so that visiting museum curators who come to Manhattan make it a point to stop by the Jewish Museum's current show, "Primary Structures...
...tapping Eurodollars, American industry can expand abroad without adding to the nation's troublesome balance-of-payments deficit. To do so, of course, even blue-chip firms must pay Europe's soaring interest rates, which lately have gone to 6½% to 7%. The climb has been so swift, in fact, that at least nine of the last 24 U.S. corporate issues were selling below their offering price last week. Among Continental underwriters, the current morose joke goes: "Playing the bond market is no longer speculation because you're bound to lose...