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...changes in the quantity of U.S. personal income but also by changes in the quality of U.S. living. One major factor is that the U.S. is a nation of increasing mobility; this year 9,500,000 American families will move to different homes, and most of them will discard at least some of their old furniture, buy pieces better suited to their new surroundings...
...deadlocked little guerrilla war. He knew that back home there was a growing conviction among many Americans that 1) the Vietnamese alone probably could not win the war no matter how much money and weaponry they were given, 2) the U.S. should ship more troops to South Viet Nam, discard its "adviser" role and forcefully engage in the fighting, 3) the war must be vigorously carried to North Viet Nam if necessary...
...baby is growing, and crying foul. The U.S. waits for riots and violence before recognizing his rights, and then calls it "concessions." Why not plan for an orderly transition? It is a mistake to discard the whole affair as a Communist maneuver. We have our share of Communists-but don't prove them right...
...wound that cripples and eventually kills most hemophiliacs; it is internal bleeding, especially into the joints, that does the damage. "This," said Manhattan's Dr. Henry H. Jordan, "is more crippling than either polio or arthritis. But it's incredible what rehabilitation can do. Many patients can discard a brace, for example, after five or even ten years." Today, some hemophiliacs work as longshoremen and loggers...
...through the surface as if trying to poke through to heaven. Although cast in medieval garb and aglow with the epicurean colors of Rembrandt, the art of David Aronson merely stages modern problems in ancient dress. What Aronson pictures is mans effort to cast aside his graven image, discard his mask of duplicity He has succeeded where few contemporaries have even dared to try in marrying today's religious concerns with the visual arts...