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Immense projects are sprouting around the world?a city for 500,000 refugees outside Karachi; two complete mining towns at Puerto Ordaz and Ciudad Piar, Venezuela; a new port area for Mombasa, Kenya; a French satellite city outside Toulouse to house 100,000 people???in which the planners are doing as much as the politicians and statesmen to determine how men will live tomorrow. And the planner who has the most to plan with is the man in the Bentley: William Leonard Pereira, 54, an architect from Chicago who is pinning more and more of the state of California...
...that is effectively harassing Viet Cong supply lines from Communist North Viet Nam. The government has embarked on a crash program to construct some 12,000 "strategic hamlets." fortified villages where the peasants will be guarded against Viet Cong attacks by trained, well-armed militiamen. Already 9,750,000 people???65% of the population?have been settled in the 7,500 hamlets that have been built...
...suburb he is "imprisoned in brotherhood." The indictment, now seven years old, still has much validity, although Whyte admits that a tighter, more competitive economy has made for many sharper, less brotherly elbows. Besides, as automation displaces many straight clerical jobs, there is growing demand for skilled, creative people???and a growing willingness to take them as they are. There is a thriving washroom and cocktail-party folklore about corporate togetherness (the oil company chemist who is instructed to buy only company gasoline, the assistant vice president being told what car he should or should not drive). At the same...
...many Christians believe, with Catholic University's Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, that in practice "religion is just an irrelevancy in the lives of many people???the great majority." Gloomy Christian theologians are fond of speaking of a post-Christian age?the Christian Church estranged from modern society. "We need a theology of the 20th, or even the 21st century," says Dominican Dominique Dubarle, professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris...
...principal functions now. It was he whom the President first sent to meet Churchill and Stalin, and he who first suggested the Atlantic Charter meetings where Churchill and Roosevelt met for the first time. He has always been a broker in people???in short, a politician...