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...visited 28 states and talked to 40 Governors, over a dozen mayors and countless thousands of ordinary citizens. He is given constant exposure; an entire issue of the New York Times Magazine last week was devoted to a minute-by-minute chronicle of the six days that Author John Hersey spent with him in the White House. He was interviewed live for an hour on television by CBS'S Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid and Bob Schieffer. He took a 20-hour whirlwind tour to New Orleans that included his landmark speech on Viet Nam at Tulane University of Louisiana...
...tariff hikes on imported oil were made easier by the advice he had been given. But critics feel that in the province of foreign policy, Henry Kissinger alone is in charge. After being reassured by witnessing the flow of diverse domestic advisers who met with the President, John Hersey was troubled to note that only Kissinger or his National Security Council deputy, Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, gave most of the advice on foreign policy. It was, he wrote, the "most alarming thought I have had all week...
...some reason, perhaps because of my innate optimism. I envisioned a conclusive and factual account of the February 14-16 National Student Conference Against Racism and the National Student Coalition Against Racism in my first glance at Edmond Hersey's March 5th article "Racism and the Left." Though Mr. Horsey may have meant well, and his statement to me during the conference that he was not speaking to me for the purpose of writing a Crimson article leads me to doubt the sincerity of his good intentions, he failed to capture the essence of the conference, the efforts made...
...average two children per couple, just enough to replace the parents when they die. The Bureau of the Census says the average now is under three and decreasing. Even if a cancer cure is found, or life expectancy extended, the United States with ZPG will never have the overpopulation Hersey dramatizes. It isn't New Haven, but New Delhi, that has to worry about a crowded world. In places like Calcutta, the overcrowding Hersey visualizes is a reality, but without the organization, acceptance, and efficiency programmed in Hersey's world...
...these matters are far beyond the scope of John Hersey's novel. It's simply too easy for Americans reading More Space to shut out the world, to take refuge below the trees in the Yard and in the sun along the Charles, because Americans have more space...