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Slums & Culture. As they move into statehood, Hawaiians have their share of juvenile delinquency, traffic snarls, slums and crime, but they also have an extraordinarily high literacy rate (more than 98%), a topflight university (coming soon: a $200,000 East-West Cultural Exchange Center), a fine art academy and a symphony orchestra; and bustling new suburban complexes, studded with ranch houses. They appreciate some of the typical social aspects of U.S. mainland life as well: they love baseball, guzzle more soda pop and eat more hot dogs than the people of any other state...
...aspect the Nixon visit was just more evidence of the East-West thaw, the cultural exchange flow that has taken thousands of scientists, politicians, engineers, entertainers, students, athletes and tourists from one side of the Iron Curtain to the other. But the Nixon trip was more than that. The thaw, as envisioned by the Russians, would leave the U.S. so impressed with Soviet good intentions that the West would settle for harsh Soviet terms for peace. Nixon added something new to the exchange: assurance that the U.S. has its own goals, aims and ambitions for the orderly development...
...Mizoguchi is both poor and common, and Temple champions a kind of cultural revolt of the masses, with its rejection of all that is feudal and aristocratic. There is a lot of Zen beatnik in Mishima's hero, and at his worst he is a glorification of the East-West culture bum who has neither the courage nor the talent to remake the world he hates...
Burden of Ike's letter was a solemn warning that unless the Geneva conference made some progress toward ending the seven-month-old Berlin crisis, the U.S. would not agree to an East-West summit conference. In essence, Ike told Khrushchev the same thing that he told a White House press conference two days later: "I see no use whatsoever in trying to have a harvest when there is no planting and no tilling...
...hand (fruit juice for Russia's Gromyko), the foreign ministers of the Big Four and their assistants sat in awkward silence last week on Couve's terrace, looking down through a lovely spring evening at the waters of Lake Geneva. With all the vast range of East-West conflicts as their province, the assembled diplomats could find nothing useful...