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...answer to old age, says Mile de Beauvoir, is in the psychological resolution of childhood and in the values that a society inculcates in the child and the adolescent. The prescription to her thesis is meagerly developed. She says only that we must "go on pursuing ends that give our esistence meaning.... Devotion to individuals, to groups or causes, social, political, intellectual or creative." Her prescription is meager only because she does not see herself in The Coming of Age as a theoretician of change, but rather as one more marshaller of the facts that indicate that change is imperative...
...redress. Faced with an outrageous bill for a crankcase repair, demand to see the "flatrate manual" used in the trade to standardize prices for parts and the mechanic's estimated time per job. If a taxi driver or a waiter is obnoxious, do not just give him a meager tip-give him none at all. If you are elbowed aside by some pushy character in a queue or at a counter, ask his name-it has a surprisingly sobering effect on aggressiveness. If a merry crew of jokesters and shouters make it impossible to sleep on an overnight flight...
What has been the effect of such concentrated bombing? By the evidence of aerial photographs, the physical damage to North Vietnamese industry and transportation has been immense. General Eade judges that "we have very nearly stopped rail traffic from the North." Hanoi has lost about 60% of its meager industrial capacity and most of its electrical power stations. All of the country's rail lines and most of its main bridges have been knocked out. On one day alone last week, American planes flew 340 strikes and damaged ten bridges and a pontoon factory; next day they went back...
...goes into California fresh from an impressive victory in Oregon, where he took 50% of the vote. Humphrey, who wisely stayed out of the state, finished a poor third with 13%, behind George Wallace's 20%. Neither Humphrey nor McGovern paid much attention to Rhode Island, where a meager 48,088 out of some 500,000 eligible voters turned out. McGovern won it with 41%, despite the state Democratic leaders' longstanding commitment to Ed Muskie. Humphrey again finished third, this time behind Muskie. Humphrey had wound up a dismal third in his favorite kind of state, Michigan...
...states where labor and blacks -his old allies-are important, he averaged a meager one-fifth of the vote. It was a bad omen as Humphrey looked forward to California on June 6. His coalition showed at least some signs of disintegration...