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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Urban Shangrila. Basically, a new town is a self-contained community that includes not only shopping and recreational facilities but sufficient business and industry to provide jobs for everybody-thus preventing it from becoming a mere bedroom for an existing city. A new town can be a satellite city, close to an already developed metropolitan area, or a wholly new urban center erected on virgin land in much the same way that Chandigarh, Canberra and Brasilia were built. For social and economic as well as political reasons, U.S. planners say that the towns should provide a population mix of wealthy...
...area's future more than the violence had to do with changes in leadership. In Israel, the sudden death by heart attack of Premier Levi Eshkol (see box following page) opened the possibility of a struggle for succession. In Syria, a forced change in government may help close ranks against Israel in the Arab world...
More definitive answers will have to await the four additional Mars probes now planned by NASA. In 1971, during the next close approach of Mars, the U.S. will send two photographic spacecraft into orbit around the planet for at least 90 days each. The orbiters will take a series of pictures showing seasonal changes on Mars, map the entire surface and enable scientists to choose likely looking spots for future landings. High priority will be given to sites with the warmest temperatures and greatest traces of moisture...
...Close-Order Rituals. Hannum's point is apparently lost on many critics, who see no disparity in arguing against ROTC while arguing for a volunteer army. Such an army might well need a larger supply of ROTC officers, even if only to curb the growth of a real U.S. officer caste. Meanwhile, wherever ROTC is made extracurricular, the almost certain result will be diminished enrollment. Ultimately, the military might have to turn elsewhere for officers...
...already under way. Drill, euphemistically known as "leadership laboratory," has been officially halved to an hour a week by both the Army and Navy, and will probably be eliminated entirely. The brass is well aware that undergraduates can no longer be made to plod through four years of weekly close-order rituals to master what basic trainees learn in the first few days of boot camp. Admits a high-ranking Army ROTC officer in the Pentagon: "Leadership laboratory may well be the program's worst enemy. It's got to go if we are to survive...