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Meanwhile, Washington has little choice but to say sayonara, Okinawa. If the U.S. were to cling to the island, it might produce an anti-American regime in Tokyo and destroy the Security Treaty with Japan. That would represent a far greater loss than Okinawa for the long-term security of Asia...
This change in morality is most prominently approved by those in the upper reaches of achievement: professional men and women, the college-educated, the prosperous citizens of suburbia. They are joined by young people under 30 and, in many instances, by the blacks. The moral conservatives, those who still cling tightly to the old verities, are mainly to be found among those over 50 and in the lower-income, less-educated sectors, especially in small towns. In the matter of morality, there are virtually two Americas...
...Germans are trying to force them into devaluing just after their June 1 presidential elections. The British rightly fear that their fragile pound will come under renewed speculative attack. Britain's foreign debts far exceed its reserves of gold and foreign money, and sterling may be able to cling to its $2.40 rate only if international creditors give the British more time to repay...
Wrong Reasons. The trouble is that a large portion of those 30 million viewers who watched the Academy Award ceremonies last week still cling to the Modern Screen belief that the Oscars are given for merit. Sadly, they are sometimes not even given in gratitude. For all his contributions to the industry, Gary Grant has never won an Oscar. Nor has Charlie Chaplin, nor Orson Welles, nor Paul Newman. Even when the Oscar is given to a deserving recipient, it is frequently for the wrong reasons...
...ALPHABET TREE, by Leo Lionni (Pantheon; $3.95), is tops on the list of picture books that teach as well as amuse. The letters, coached by a word bug and a purple caterpillar, cling to the tree and to one another to say "something important-peace...