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...mottoes, Johnson keeps handy a printed card that reads: "The only purpose for your activity is to get results." He has always followed that advice. A native lowan and Purdue University engineering graduate, Johnson worked as an assistant commissioner of health in New York City, where he learned firsthand about another environmental hazard: urban decay. His practical experience and accomplishments in New York made him a natural choice to head the environmental service after it was created in July...
...ordinary Soviet citizen, the U.S. is a country that, as Novelist Konstantin Simonov recently wrote in Pravda, "willy-nilly occupies a vast amount of space in our consciousness." There are only a few ways, however, in which Russians can satisfy their hunger for information about American lifestyles firsthand: examining the few consumer products available in hard-currency shops, attending occasional educational fairs sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency, and thumbing through the cultural exchange magazine Amerika, which is popular despite a limited circulation of 55,000. The vast majority of reports about the U.S. appear in the Soviet Union...
Hyperbole Showing. So it goes, day after day, in the Arab-Israeli war of the communiques. Generally, foreign correspondents cannot visit battlefronts to see firsthand what is happening. And U.N. observers are not always in a position to supply even a secondhand objective account. So the correspondents often find themselves reporting little more than a credibility conflict in which the chief casualty is truth...
...countryside of South Viet Nam. I wish they could see the harm done to the fighting morale resulting from peace marches and war demonstrations. I wish they could see that this war, just as any other war, is hell! And until they can see some of these things themselves firsthand, I wish they would keep their damned mouths shut...
Christ was tempted by Satan in the wilderness of Judah, so the Bible says, and James Pike was determined to go there too-"to meditate," as his wife wistfully recalled later, "and get a firsthand feeling of it." For the onetime Episcopal Bishop of California, it was just one more unusual adventure in a remarkably strange career (see following story). As always, he was anxious to get on with it. No matter that it was 1 o'clock on a hot Monday afternoon, hardly the time to set out into the blistering, arid desert. James Pike...