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...future role in the world. It is a role that will surely be affected by the staggering financial cost of the conflict. With that in mind, William Doerner of our Business section calculated the war's drain on the U.S. Treasury through the years and explained why the oft-mentioned "peace dividend" is not likely to materialize. Bob McCabe wrote a portrait of the leaders who have directed the North Vietnamese. Deborah Pierce, Alice George and Antoinette Melillo of our picture department compiled a photo gallery of war personalities who were once familiar to all but have since disappeared...
...unfaithful to his spouse as was the American male of Kinsey's day. On the other hand, 28% of the American women interviewed by Kinsey's team declared that they had been unfaithful, compared with only 10% of the French women. As the French report asserts, "the oft-advanced theory of declining morality is not borne out"-at least not in France...
Whether that would be perceived by the U.S. public as an abandonment of an oft-repeated Administration commitment is unclear. Doubtless, the White House is aware that with its profusion of committees and procedural steps-not to mention the possibility that negotiations between Saigon and the P.R.G. on the caretaker government could slog on for years-the plan would make it tough for anyone to judge with any certainty whether or not Nixon had made good on his pledge not to "join our enemy to overthrow our ally...
Certainly, the summit will not bring instant warmth to relations between China and Japan. They have been rivals for centuries and locked in war -military or verbal-almost continuously since the annexation of Formosa (Taiwan) by Japanese troops in 1895. So far, Chou has not publicly softened his oft-expressed view that Japan's economic growth "is bound to bring about military expansion." Given the history of hostility on both sides, the prospect is thus for a summit of convenience, not for a summit of real reconciliation...
Sociologist William Kenkel ponders a science fiction proposition that the world may be so overcrowded 100 years from now that part of the population will have to hibernate for half of each year to reduce demands on resources. A color spread shows how the oft-decried weathering of classical statuary can actually improve its aesthetic impact. Poet-Novelist David Slavitt modernizes Virgil's Georgics in irreverent slang that gives it surprising contemporary relevance ("Okay, Maecenas, whatever you say; farming it is: hints for happier cornfields...