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...Reporters here would like to see us lose the war to prove they're right." She went out into the field in an effort to get "the seldom-told other side of the story," a story, she insisted, "that contrasts violently with the tragic headlines and anti-Diem ferment in the big cities...
...beginning of a new political epoch is like the breaking of a dam," Schlesinger wrote. "The chaos of the breakthrough offends those who like everything neatly ordered and controlled; but it is likely to be a creative confusion, bringing a ferment of ideas and innovations into the national life. Thus the 60's will probably be spirited, articulate, inventive, incoherent, turbulent, with energy shooting off wildly in all directions...
THIRTEEN months before the 1964 U.S. presidential election, there is a bubbling ferment in political circles around the U.S. Who can win? Who's for-and against-whom? Which way is the trend moving? What will the issues be? While they are thinking and talking privately about these questions, political leaders-true to form at this stage of the game-are saying little in public about what they really think. To get at what is in the political minds, TIME set out three weeks ago on a reporting process that is uniquely suited to our kind of journalism...
...Ferment & Passion. Nourishing this flower of public education is one of the richest cities in the U.S. Beverly Hills (pop. 32,000) has families getting along on $10,000 or so. But much of it is a lotus land of rich brokers, industrialists, movie producers, and more psychiatrists per psyche than anywhere else in the country. Going for it is an assessed real-estate valuation of $239 million and the smallest ratio of schoolchildren to population (about 1 to 7) in California. As a result, it has the lowest school-tax rate of any sizable school district in the state...
Predominantly Jewish, Beverly Hills is passionate for learning. "There is more intellectual ferment here than any place in the country," claims School Psychologist John J. Morgenstern. So advanced are the elementary schools that youngsters entering the high school from elsewhere get 20% lower grades than home-honed products. Dropouts are almost unthinkable, and of 1962's 376 graduates, at least 352 went on to college...