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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everywhere the group went, the main questions on the agenda were the Viet Nam war and what is to follow when it ends. As they charted their continent's future course, Asia's leaders argued with out exception that the U.S. must continue to play a prominent role. Talking with tour members in Bangkok, Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman urged the U.S. to abandon its tendency to talk about "so-called priorities" between trouble spots in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere. Thanat's explanation was straightforward: "The people who live in lesser-priority...
...plan to build six new towns near Paris before the 21st century. The Netherlands, Sweden and Russia have already built a number of new towns. Tapiola, Finland, an urban Shangri-la six miles from Helsinki, is the new town that comes closest to meeting the ideal. Tapiola's main shopping center is a magnificent paved plaza. Nearby are a movie house, theater, hotel and swimming pool. Since no house is more than 250 yards from a shopping and amusement center, residents do most of their traveling on foot...
Rheem and Severance form a powerful 1-2 punch in the 100-freestyle and sometimes the 200-free. Crimson coach Bill Brook's main hopes to stop these two are Mike Cahalan and Toby Gerhart, a pair of talented sophomores...
...recent petition sponsored by a Faculty group uses platitudes about academic freedom to cover up the main issue of racism at Harvard and is thus a direct attack on the Black students who stopped the riot control course...
Penn Station in New York is brightly lit and gilded plastic. It is not a proper home for trains. The dispatcher sits in a glass booth suspended over the main hall. You know that he served his apprenticeship in an airport form the way he issues commands, as if it is all a game of Railroad, in which the people below are his playing pieces. If the Secretary of Transportation ever institutes high-speed train service on the East Coast, he will employ men like this Penn Dispatcher. The result will be an airline on wheels...