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Anyone with a little talent at historical extrapolation can see that the U.S. Government is on a collision course not only with the Third World but also with its own young, black and disenchanted. True, there appears to be at the moment no Lenin or Robespierre prepared to precipitate the revolution, but then there may be no need for one. U.S. society will simply begin to collapse under the weight of its own complexity (a foretaste of which we periodically see in New York City), and would-be revolutionaries will have only to step into a ready-made state...
Only a year ago, Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson said in a moment of frustration: "We all know that the two biggest words in the English language are 'national defense.' If you just shout them loud enough, you are in the clear. It is just plain unpatriotic to question any appropriation for national defense. Defense against what? It does not matter. Just utter the magic words." Nelson's complaint was not considered much of an exaggeration ?only a year ago. Now, suddenly, the words seem to have lost their magic. Now another Senator notes that wherever he goes...
Control Upheaval. Thus, for the first time since 1958, Mao last week opened a national political convention. It was a highly significant moment for him. After having subjected China and the party to more than two years of chaos in the name of his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Mao was trying not only to control the upheaval that has threatened to plunge the country into civil war but also to rebuild the party...
...change makes sound religious sense. To the believing Christian, death is a moment not of annihilation but of resurrection, when a soul's turbulent earthly journey comes to a happy end in eternal life. American Protestant funeral rites traditionally reflected this belief in such comfortable old favorites as the 23rd Psalm ("The Lord is my Shepherd") and the promises of Jesus ("I am the Resurrection and the Life"), at least until the more unctuous funeral-parlor euphemisms began to avoid any confrontation at all with the idea of death. Roman Catholic rites, on the other hand, were infected...
Eleanor Lambert, the fashion publicist known as "the voice" of Seventh Avenue, feels that "this is the moment for the Negro girl. She has long legs, is apt to be very thin and wiry. That is the look of now." It is also the look of Naomi Sims, 21, a 5-ft. 10-in. Pittsburgher whose other vital statistics (32-23-34) will never qualify her for a Playboy centerfold, but make her currently one of the most ubiquitous and highest-paid fashion models in the world. Two years ago, Naomi was studying psychology on a scholarship at New York...