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Pizzas and Laundromats. Evidence of the American presence is everywhere. Along blacktopped, four-lane Route 1, built by the U.S., there are miles of drive-in restaurants, Laundromats, pizza parlors and souvenir stands. Big American cars squeeze through Naha's narrow streets. G.I.s and their families crowd in and out of shops, housewives wearing scarves over the inevitable hair curlers. In Koza, the nearest large town to the Kadena base, there are numerous bars, such as the Night Queen, Cabaret Aloha and U.S. Club, and few nights go by without at least one fistfight involving overloaded Americans and Okinawans...
Actually, it verges on caricature to blame pragmatic intellectuals for so much of the war. Both John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson relied heavily on other kinds of advisers, notably the military, with its enthusiastic contingency plans. Moreover, it was primarily intellectuals who inspired a national dissidence sufficient to drive Lyndon Johnson from office. Still, the war does demonstrate that many scientists and scholars have not yet learned to handle their worldly roles. Some have been blinded by government research, which has transformed the nature of American universities. Yet few modern intellectuals can retreat to ivory-tower isolation. How, then, should...
...Though its revenues dropped 7% compared with last year's first quarter, McDonnell Douglas' earnings climbed 157%, partly because the company got its troubled Douglas commercial-aircraft division under control. At Union Carbide, profits jumped 28% on a sales increase of only 8%, partly because of a drive to cut costs and increase production at existing facilities. Runaway prices for wood products lifted profits more than 60% for Weyerhauser and Georgia-Pacific...
...game with Springfield, right-hander George Crace went the distance for his third straight win, striking out 11 and walking only four. Mike Thomas had four hits and three RBI's, and Harvard Lee smashed a triple and a double to drive in three more scores...
BORN IN Virginia, Wolfe describes his childhood as "growing up in the first drive-in era." In accepting that birthright, Wolfe echoes Vladimir Nabakov, who -- in repudiating charges of Lolita's anti-Americanism--wrote, "I needed a certain exhilerating milieu. Nothing is more exhilerating than philistine volgarity." It is thus appropriately ironic that Tom Wolfe started out with a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale. Later, while working as a reporter in Washington, he discovered poor tenement families eating dirt; in the story that followed, Wolfe cited a 19th century American book that discussed the same phenomenon. Today, he concludes...