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...biggest magnet for visitors is L.B.J.'s elaborately cosmeticized "Boyhood Home," a Texas Historical Landmark, which after three years of operation greeted its 200,000th visitor last summer. The modest white frame house is something more than "restored." All the rooms are furnished as parlors, stuffed with turn-of-the-century furniture and L.B.J. memorabilia. More rustic, but open to the public only when the President is away, is a rebuilt "birthplace" cabin on the edge of the ranch itself...
...Magnet for the Poor...
...theory that New York City, with the highest payments in the country, is a magnet for the poor of other states and communities. The city's budget since 1965 has risen 40% to almost 56 billion, more than any state-including the state of New York-spends in a year. Real estate taxes have gone up 260 per $100 (but the assessed valuation has risen more than $2 billion), and for the first time the city has levied an income tax. Strike has followed strike, and New Yorkers can only speculate on what essential service will...
...through it. Earlier catheters were often stopped by friction and could not always be guided into the desired path at a junction or around sharp curves. The new model, developed in research at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, has a magnetic tip. This can be made to oscillate in different directions under the control of an external magnet on alternating current. As the tip vibrates, it pulls clear of the artery's walls, leaving them undamaged, and "swims" forward. When the magnet is powered by direct current, it helps...
...Culture Magnet. For the long run, the U.S. should continue its efforts for detente. That is not because it condones the Soviet acts in Czechoslovakia, but because the magnet of Western culture and trade-as it has already done in Czechoslovakia-must inevitably create a climate in which liberalization will be too great a temptation for the Communist countries to resist. This is particularly important now because the Russians themselves are being forced to admit that dissent is present-and growing-among the intelligentsia, who realize that the only way to a more efficient modern state is through greater freedom...