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...MATERIALISM. "For me, there is a great longing to reach beyond the Formica and gleaming stainless steel and to be able to touch other human beings. I want to be able to share with others the awe of a redwood tree and its inviolability in comparison to a high way; I want to do so without being considered a 'nut.' I want to be free from the compulsion to possess things and people, and to know that others are similarly free. I want to be able to love life enough to value it over all else...
What of the Ramparts report of a million child war victims that provoked the formation of the Committee of Responsibility in the first place? The three doctors-Internist Henry Mayer of Redwood City, Calif., Plastic Surgeon John Constable of Boston, and Pediatrician Theodore Tapper of Philadelphia -struggled to establish reliable casualty estimates. They visited 37 of the Viet Nam government's provincial hospitals in three weeks, but in the end could do no better than accept the Vietnamese Ministry of Health's report that casualties are now being admitted to its hospitals at the rate...
Although Kuchel and Reagan make no display of mutual admiration, their staffs are in frequent consultation. The Governor and the Senator have found it easy to cooperate on public-works programs to benefit the state, and have even agreed on a controversial plan to preserve California's redwood forests (TIME, March 24). Reagan's help on such nonideological issues can only buttress the look-what-I've-done-for-California theme that Kuchel will probably use in his re-election campaign. And Kuchel allowed solemnly last week: "I think a U.S. Senator has a duty to cooperate...
Justice Without Bitterness. The court ruling will return to the petitioners-without interest-some $4,000,000 in savings that the Government confiscated from U.S. branches of Japanese banks. Mrs. Ayako Honda, 68, of Redwood City, Calif., who spent three years in a Utah camp while one of her sons was serving in the U.S. Army, estimates that she may receive about $500. She says she feels no bitterness, is elated that finally "justice was done." Said Los Angeles Attorney A. L. Wirin, who represented some of the plaintiffs: "This decision brings to an end the last injustice visited...
...busiest TV performers during the strike against the networks has been the Ampex Corp. of Redwood City, Calif. As the supplier of 75% of the complex electronic equipment used in television production, Ampex accounts for most of the video tape recorders that are now working overtime, unreeling reruns while live stars man the picket lines...