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...such problems are not widely familiar, it is only because they have long been drowned out by the louder outcry of the cities over kindred troubles. Small Town, U.S.A., is in fact likely to be heard from more and more in coming years. In the past decade, through such channels as the National Association of Towns and Townships and the Congressional Rural Caucus, small towns have begun voicing a more concerted plea for federal assistance. By last December they had prodded the White House, long obsessed with city problems, into issuing for the first time a formal policy on small...
...fraction had risen from 20 per cent to 45 per cent of the population. Miami had changed from a city with a charming Latin quarter to a Latin city. In the early '70s English-speaking Miamians began to grumble about losing control of "their" city. Today they say it louder. To an Anglo the Spanish language seems to be everywhere, far more prevalent thatn English. Everyone complains about receiving wrong-number telephone calls from "Latins" (a favorite euphemism for Cubans). In fact, one of the less obnoxious ethnic slurs for a Cuban is "oye," the command form of the Spanish...
...streets of Tehran. His mind walked the streets of Cambridge, footsteps echoing. Perini's boys were digging up the Square, rat tat tat. He heard the brutality inflicted on the helpless pavement, and yelled for them to stop. They wouldn't, so he shivered and screamed at the cranes, "Louder, louder!" The noise persisted. He rolled over to swing apple juice...
...hands know what is going to happen now around Washington. Some will counsel the President in the virtues of doing nothing. Some will condemn the military minds that planned the strike. The allies will scream even louder than they have. The President will be alone with his obligation, his conscience and his will more now than ever before. How he puts this all together will decide if he survives as President, if the U.S. marches ahead or cringes...
...that it would not change its plans to televise the two-hour program, over more than 100 stations, on May 12. State Department officials in Washington acknowledged that the Saudis had expressed their concern about the showing. They were obviously paying no heed to an old Hollywood adage: the louder the protest, the bigger the audience...