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From East to West, West to East, the U.S. of today is knit together in an increasingly common culture that leaves plenty of room for individualism but little for the old separateness. In his Travels with Charley, an account of a trip around the entire continental U.S., John Steinbeck observed: "From start to finish, I found no strangers." Says Historian Daniel J. Boorstin: "Much of what people call provincialism is really a way of attacking this country for not being like Europe, or the Midwest for not being like New York. As a consequence of modern technology and higher standards...
...Statehouse by a young man's ambition. "Let the people decide," he demanded; and last week they did, giving Rolvaag 315,734 votes to Keith's 146,926. Hubert Humphrey, a founding member of D.F.L. who backed Keith after the June conclave, hustled to knit the party together for November, when Rolvaag's Republican opponent will be Attorney Harold Le Vander, a political neophyte who has never run for statewide office before...
Jealous Faculties. Latin American universities are further plagued by inefficient administration. Most schools are loose-knit amalgamations of once-separate faculties that jealously cling to their own identities and offer duplicate courses. At the University of São Paulo, which consists of 16 separate institutes and 68 affiliated units, chemistry courses are taught in 22 different buildings. Costs consequently multiply. Some third-rate regional universities in Brazil spend up to $4,000 per student for each year of study-about the annual cost of an education at Harvard...
Several months of constant booking has made this colorful and exuberant group a tight knit performing unit. Almost everyone sings at some point and all play several instruments including a few home-made ones. The band's renditions of two old time rags and "Mr. Hippy" John Hurt's "Richland Woman's Blues" were musically satisfying and highly entertaining.JUDY COLLINS...
Prime Minister Harold Wilson had promised to disclose the names of "the tightly knit group of politically motivated men" responsible for prolonging Britain's crippling seamen's strike. Last week he did, but it was a bit anticlimactic. Everyone knew he had Communists in mind, but it turned out that they were Communists everybody knew about: eight prominent labor spokesmen of Britain's Communist Party who, admitted Wilson, had behaved in an entirely legal fashion throughout the six-week dispute...