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In two key contests, the race issue had a partial but by no means decisive influence. Reagan was helped in California by white reactions to riots in San Francisco and to open-housing laws, but he owed his election primarily to his "time-for-a-change" theme, his charismatic personality...
They argue that for all the Allied success in search-and-kill forays against the Communists, victories over the enemy's main-force military units are like pushing water up the side of a bowl. The moment the mailed fist of U.S. power is withdrawn to search out the...
Today people who save string or old clothes in attics are likely to run into psychologists who tell them that such hoarding is neurotic, or economists who prove it uneconomical, or architects who simply do not provide enough storage space for it. The new American maxim, Columbia University's...
Though he would prefer to settle the dispute within the Commonwealth, Wilson has vowed to take it to the U.N. if no accord is reached by Nov. 30. If that happens, Smith has said that "the matter would be taken out of our hands," meaning he would have no choice...
Different critics mean different things by waste. The most obvious definitions are heedless opulence, which, as it were, drops too much from the table, and the readiness to discard the only slightly old. A secondary target is the artificial stimulation of the consumer to buy in vast quantities things he...