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Grasping Realities. At the East-West Center on the University of Hawaii's campus, the President noted that while the U.S. was once interested in Asia chiefly as a trade outlet, and had thus pursued the policy of "the open door," its policy today "must be the policy of an open mind." He added: "I am convinced that we have now reached a turning point in Asia's history, in Asia's relations with the U.S., in Asia's relations with the rest of the world." More and more, he said, Asia is "casting...
Citrus fruit, the arrival of the railroad and Southern California's spreading reputation as a sun-drenched health haven led to a land boom in the 1880s. The landlocked city enhanced its metropolitan status by reaching out 20 miles to annex San Pedro as an outlet to the Pacific. By 1900, the population exceeded 100,000, and when Los Angeles quenched its thirst with an aqueduct to the far-off Owens River Valley in 1913, its destiny was sealed. Los Angeles and its environs claimed well over 2,000,000 inhabitants by 1930. Having emerged after World...
...News slipped to 119,000. But Herald Publisher John S. Knight, president of the Knight chain, did not want to buy the liberal-leaning News; and News Publisher James M. Cox Jr., whose six-paper chain includes the Atlanta Constitution, was loath to fold his Miami outlet...
...Sacramento Union, for all its failings, has the virtue of offering Jim Copley an outlet for that philosophy in Northern California-which promises lively newspaper competition in Sacramento, where the far stronger afternoon Sacramento Bee (circ. 177,000) has had the field to itself for years. The Bee's owner, Eleanor McClatchy, has used that position of power to back her liberal preferences, such as Pat Brown over Sam Yorty in the recent Democratic primary. Copley arrived at the Union just in time to start pushing Ronald Reagan over George Christopher in the Republican primary...
...best teams in the country for the last several years. Nor am I saying that student's decay physically at Harvard more than elsewhere. The House programs probably make the overall athletic level at Harvard and Yale higher than anywhere does in the country. They also provide an outlet for upperclassmen that desert the university ranks...