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...behind "must settle for second or third best in leadership," social mobility affects non-movers too. Even people who live in one house all their lives may become "psychological nomads: the turnover of people around them is so great that they find themselves with few close ties to friends, kinfolk or community...
When Folk Singer Woody Guthrie died in 1967 at the age of 55, he was already a legend. It was only natural that when his friends, loved ones and musical kinfolk gathered in New York's Carnegie Hall the next year to pay him tribute in song, their mood was not entirely somber. It was also touched by a joyful awareness of the continuing life in Guthrie's music...
...simply that the parents and their children were surrounded by relatives: in-laws, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins. If the relatives did not live within the same household, they were next door or down the block or on the next farm. But as Americans became more mobile, the kinfolk have been gradually left behind. As a result, the typical family has evolved into an isolated "nuclear"' family. It consists simply of a father, a mother and their children, and is usually located miles away from the home of the nearest relative...
Students and teachers who already swear by Arthur Frommer's penny-pinching guidebook Europe on $5 a Day will escape most of the taxes, as will tourists who visit kinfolk in the old country. Though details have not yet been worked out completely, the tax for average daily expenditures above $10 may come to a flat 20%, or it may go as high as 40% for everything over...
Even so, the Viet Cong recruiters have their standards. Any man under 4 ft. 10 in. is rejected, as are those with kinfolk fighting for the government, those with such ailments as stomach trouble, tuberculosis, asthma or an amputated trigger finger. To avoid infiltration by government spies, one captured document enjoined against recruiting former ARVN volunteers, Roman Catholics, and "those young men whose father or mother were killed by the Revolution, landlords' sons, and those whose parents, brothers and sisters were tyrants, opponents and distributors of the Revolution...