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While Writer Birnbaum had the advantage of this firsthand source, he was also provided with the extensive research of 21 TIME correspondents, who roamed the suburbs encircling 21 U.S. metropolitan centers from Philadelphia to San Francisco. Portland, Me. to Dallas. Interviewing hundreds of commuting doctors, lawyers and P.T.A. chiefs, not to mention their wives, the reporters produced more than 400 pages of the rich lore of Suburbia...
...white professor of sociology and ten white students from MacMurray College in Illinois went to Montgomery, Ala. to gather firsthand evidence, were all arrested for eating with Negro students in a Negro restaurant...
...unsedated physician was alert enough to step behind the curtain to examine the model brain's wiring. Said he: "Anybody who can keep this thing running must also be able to give firsthand testimony on the various tranquilizers. It would make a nervous wreck out of me without my Miltown...
...Road. Last month a few lucky U.S. skindivers got a firsthand look at the great man himself. Jetting in for a business trip and lectures to scientific societies, Jacques Cousteau found himself surrounded by skindivers who plied him with questions far into the night. (Sample: "Can you compress air into tanks lots smaller than the ones we have now?" Answer: "Yes, but it is too expensive-the demand will have to be greater.") Typically, after one late night the irrepressible Cousteau was up at 7 o'clock, woke his traveling companions by bursting into their rooms shouting "Whoo...
...Stock Exchange we come into firsthand contact with the range of knowledge-the economic literacy-of a broad cross-section of the American people. That knowledge, not to mince words, is often shockingly inadequate." So said George Keith Funston, president of the New York Stock Exchange, addressing last week the National Association of Secondary School Principals in Portland, Ore. His explanation: "We do not teach economics...