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...chaos of cutthroat competition, was forming monoliths of monopoly. Labor was adolescent, agitated, angry. Government at best was minimal and at worst could be bought. The radical vote was rising. Said Theodore Roosevelt: "There had been in our country a riot of individualistic materialism . . ." But the darker portent, as the new President saw it. was that the nation was lurching out of certainty into uncertainty, from faith to doubt, from classlessness to class, from dedication to don't care, in a downgrading of the land of promise into a factory in which the gates of opportunity might snap shut...
...writers. Now producers worry about the shortage of good horses: they are shooting so many westerns that Hollywood stables can hardly keep up with their bookings ($10 a day for an "extra" horse, $25 minimum for a beast with a role). This shift in concern was as telling a portent as any last week when television rounded the bend of its 1957-58 season. It is a season in which network advertisers are spending more than ever-about $660 million a year-to woo the largest audience yet-42 million TV homes-on the theory that, as one CBS bigwig...
History and strategic portent lay around them, bright as the Mediterranean sunshine, as the Marines fanned out widely in five-man teams in accordance with the Corps' new antinuclear tactics of "separation and concentration." Flying in, they had glimpsed the Trojan plains where 3,000 years earlier Achilles fought Hector for mastery over the straits dividing Europe from Asia. Just across the bay from their landing point were the cliffs of Gallipoli Peninsula, where in World War I the British, French, Australian and New Zealand invaders suffered 250,000 casualties trying valorously but vainly to capture Constantinople and open...
...chemicals and spraying equipment picked up in Morocco. As the pungent odor of Hexachlorocyclohexane spread across the land, the invasion was brought partially under control, but an estimated 70% of Tunisia's $8,500,000 date crop had disappeared. For the Tunisians, the locust scourge was one more portent that nothing will be right in North Africa until the Algerian war is over...
...evidence to confirm what every experienced serviceman and ex-serviceman knows: that pride in one's unit is the cement, whether at base, in the line, or in P.W. camps of Korea. "Many servicemen exhibited pride in themselves and their units," the committee reported, discussing the one encouraging portent of the P.W. camps. "This was particularly pronounced where they had belonged to the same unit for years. They stood by one another . . . If a soldier were sick, his fellow soldiers took care of him. They washed his clothes, bathed him, and pulled him through. These soldiers...