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Nixon appealed to Americans to join individually and actively in solving the nation's problems???a standard passage in presidential oratory?but he did it in personal, vivid terms: "We need the energies of our people, enlisted not only in grand enterprises, but more importantly in those small, splendid efforts that make headlines in the neighborhood newspaper instead of the national journal. With these, we today can build a great cathedral of the spirit, each of us raising it one stone at a time, as he reaches out to his neighbor, helping, caring, doing...
...Yankee ancestry drove him hard to do well at it.* "The bitch goddess," he said, "sat in the outer office." With his Yalemate and co-founder of TIME Briton Hadden, Luce realized after World War I that Americans as a nation were more aware than ever of world problems???"but that their knowledge didn't equal their interest." Luce recalled his father's dictum: "The purpose of education is to make a man feel at home in his universe." That, to him, became the reason for and the aim of his publications...
...that the world's money system is not working smoothly. The affluent nations of the West are bickering with each other over the system's inadequacies and how they should be corrected; the poor nations are complaining that the system works to their disadvantage. Britain's money problems???the pound has faced crisis after crisis?have forced the country into a recession. Charles de Gaulle has hit at the U.S. by exchanging for gold the dollars that France has acquired, thus helping to force the world's richest nation to cut back its spending abroad to stem the outflow...
...status of Secretary Good's three major current problems???Army economy, flood control, finding a new Chief of Engineers? was last week as follows...
...Significance. Arthur Train has never done better. His gift lies not in narration, though his style is eminently readable. His plots are usually negligible. But he is past master of the art of dramatizing the problems???social, legal, economic?of tangled modern life. His characters are in many cases vividly drawn, but in the main they are subordinate to the examination of the intricacies of the social structure. Peculiarly in a position to know the very rich and the very poor, together with the legal mechanism of their interrelationships, he has the knack of dragging dull facts...