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...conclusion of BACKFIRE: A History of How American Culture Led Us Into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did is precisely the opposite. Loren Baritz attempts to show the Vietnam War as a product of the American political and cultural psyche, a war that had to be fought because of the way we viewed ourselves and our role in the world. It was a war that was lost because Vietnam was not the country our leaders had decided it to be, and the reality they chose to see was completely unrelated to what the fighting in Vietnam, even...
...strong economic growth in such industrial nations as the U.S. and Japan have been spurred by the swift spread of information made possible by computers. If the Soviet Union maintains restrictions on their use, it might not come close to realizing the full economic potential of computers. Says Loren Graham, a professor of the history of science and a Soviet expert at M.I.T.: "We may be about to learn that the Soviet system is not designed for the information age. If that is the case, it is going to be increasingly difficult for the U.S.S.R. to maintain its pretensions...
...Laotian soldiers waiting with sifters, who shake the dirt back and forth. The Americans wrap a winch line around a nearby tree to help pull a piece of rusted metal out of the hard-packed soil. "I don't have any idea what it is," says Navy Lieut. Commander Loren E. Decker Jr., a tall, muscular man standing at the bottom of the deep hole. "It's so mangled, you can't tell...
Actress Sonia Braga, 34, seems to have a penchant for multiples on the screen. In her most famous role, the Brazilian Loren played Dona Flor, she of the two husbands. And now Braga has a three-part undertaking. In Kiss of the Spider Woman, two prisoners, played by Raul Julia and William Hurt, pass time in jail as Hurt's character recounts the plots of early Hollywood movies he has seen, including one about a French chanteuse named Leni Lamaison and another about the title Spider Woman. Braga plays both, as well as Julia's girlfriend...
...those days was an abandoned and unknown way of transmitting a radio signal," says Loren L. Wyss '55-8, a former station president. There were only two FM stations in Boston, and they "appealed to a few music freaks because of [FM's] high fidelity," Wyss says...