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Perhaps not so typical any longer. The belief that America can go to heaven if it wants to, indeed that it has created a kind of heaven on earth, has been badly damaged lately. Last week's Fourth of July rhetoric was more resounding than ever. At Baltimore's Fort McHenry, where Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem in 1814, President Ford said that in America's third century, "quality and permanence should be the measurements of our lives" and "mass production, mass education, mass population must not smother individual expression." Surveying...
What with the Bicentennial, such rhetoric will probably continue unabated, instead of being put away for another year. Yet on the morning after the Fourth, perhaps we should ask ourselves just how free and enlightened we are, and whether the sons of those pioneers are as persevering as were their fathers. In short, just what are we celebrating-beyond mere survival, which in itself is no mean achievement...
...through secularization and intermarriage of Jews with Gentiles. Another, and some say the greatest threat to Jewish survival is being increasingly talked about: the trend among modern Jews to have small families. In the U.S., for example, enrollment in synagogue classes and day schools has declined by roughly one-fourth since 1965, owing largely to the falling Jewish birth rate...
Breaking Connors' serve five times, Ashe glided through the first two sets, then ran into trouble in the third as Connors appeared to regain his previously invincible form. In the fourth set, the Connors comeback continued, as he took a 3-0 lead. But Ashe fought back to break Connors' serve twice more for set, match and title...
...regularly embarrasses socialist regimes. The Soviet Union permits collective farmers to cultivate small private plots in their spare time and sell the produce for their own profit. Those plots account for a mere 4% of the land under cultivation in the U.S.S.R.?yet, by value, they produce a fourth of the country's food...