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...conversation with a TIME correspondent last week, Reagan attempted to trace the events that caused the abrupt shift in his political creed: "You have to start with the small-town beginnings. You're a part of everything that goes on. In high school, I was on the football team and I was in class plays and I was president of the student body, and the same thing happened in college. In a small town, you can't stand on the sidelines and let somebody else do what needs doing; you can't coast along on someone else...
...drop-off month-remained at a record 76.4 mil lion. In so tight a labor market, jobs are clearly going begging in many places. Surveying the situation in New York City, the Daily News last week reported that industry was "screaming" for "labor without regard for age, color, creed or intelligence," or even for knowledge of English...
Frustration Is Shirking. "When I was young, the whole world revolved around my, my, my," says Columnist Ann Landers, 48. "Today, I don't think in terms of myself but rather how I can be part of something bigger and better." She echoes G. B. Shaw's creed: "Happiness, a paltry goal. The thing is to be used, spent, squandered in the splendor of one of life's consuming causes...
...Minister Henrik F. Verwoerd, a symbol of white racism, has enjoyed perhaps the most dramatic international victory in legal history. Never before in modern times has the practice of avowed racist policies met with world opinion and triumphed; Verwoerd has brought a brief ray of hope into the foundering creed of segregrationists the world over...
...came, for the Western middle class, in the early 20th century, with the heavily built and uniformly heated house. But gradually, in architecture and in the imagination, the wall gave way to the window. This reflected not only an esthetic desire to let in light, but also the new creed of community, which distrusts private brooding. Besides, crowded cities made space ever more expensive, leading to "open plan" domestic architecture. The dining room became a corner of the living room, the family room opened off the kitchen, producing an illusion of greater space-and the fact of less privacy...