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...pang of an evolving democratic society trying to free itself from the clutches of feudalism. It takes time to evolve, and in its 51st year the process has just started. But look at history; it took centuries for Western democracy to reach its present glory. PRODIP DUTTA Terre Haute, Ind...
...work of art inspired by Malcolm X, you must first get the approval of the licensing agency. One day the U.S. Supreme Court will look at these issues. I hope it will hold that free speech is more important than the right to perpetual profits. STEVE HOFER Indianapolis, Ind...
DIED. CHARLES WERNER, 88, Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist; near Indianapolis, Ind. Werner sketched for the Indianapolis Star for 47 years, but his winning image was done for the Oklahoman. Drawn shortly after the Sudetenland was handed over to Hitler in 1938, it proved sadly prophetic: a scroll marked NOBEL PEACE PRIZE lies beside a gravestone bearing the epitaph CZECHOSLOVAKIA...
This conflict sits atop something ancient. "We are a nation of individuals and a nation of cooperators," notes Irwin Miller, the 87-year-old patriarch of Columbus, Ind., who used to run Cummins Engine Co. "Both are in our culture. The adversarial and the cooperative need to be kept in balance, and they are a little out of whack." Two centuries ago, the colonists wondered whether they had enough in common to become a united nation at all. Ever since, each generation has struggled with the uniquely American faith that community and freedom must be compatible. It may be that...
Hospital care in Bedford, Ind., is an odd case of capitalism in action--maybe even hyperaction. Should you get into a car wreck on Highway 50 as it passes through town, two local hospitals can send ambulances to compete for your business. If you are sufficiently alert, you can choose between Dunn Memorial Hospital and Bedford Regional Medical Center. To avoid unseemly tugs of war, the city requires that the hospitals alternate pickups of victims not well enough to state a preference. And the police are on hand to sort things out. "They'll back off when...