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...exurbs grew as the Interstates made possible long daily commutes. A nation of indefatigable cross-country travelers could thoroughly indulge its passion for movement. Still, this remarkable, concrete achievement rarely inspires pride or awe. A high-speed trip down an Interstate, its fringes bare of shops and homes, is seldom rich with incident. Life begins at the exit ramp. Rosemarie Clark knows; she maps travel routes for members of the A.A.A. in Topeka, Kans. Says Clark: "We get a lot of people who come in and say, 'No Interstates.' They want to see America...
...Missionaries know an Asia seldom seen by journalists," said Bangkok Bureau Chief David DeVoss after this week's cover story on Christian workers overseas had taken him into isolated areas of Borneo and northern Thailand. He witnessed a baptism in a water-buffalo wallow and followed a troupe of Thai students who perform the Nativity for peasants. Eugene Morse and his brother Robert, both missionaries, led DeVoss to a mountain village for a Thanksgiving feast of pork-fried cabbage. And on one cold evening DeVoss accompanied a missionary into a thatch-roofed house and heard him address a dozen...
...strikingly centered around the family and home. Only two of the top-ten spare-time pursuits, exercising or jogging and spending an evening with a friend, are frequently conducted outside the home. Television is chiefly a backdrop for other family activities. Six out of ten polled said they seldom paid close attention to the TV set while it was on. Far from creating a generation of TV zombies, the tube showed almost no ability to deflect Americans from other favorite pursuits around the house. Frequent adult watchers seem to be as home-centered as those who watch very little...
Though Perkins is sure to learn how it was in Green Bay for Phil Bengston, who replaced Vince Lombardi, he is more inclined to consider Penn State's Joe Paterno, and how seldom Paterno is compared to Rip Engle any more. Anyway, Perkins leaped from the New York Giants for the job of his dreams, while the New York opening accommodated the fantasies of Bill Parcells, an assistant coach born a Giant fan in New Jersey. It seemed that everyone's hopes were seen to, except the Bear...
...know what it's all about, I'll sing things I know they like, like On the Sunny Side of the Street. But if I see they're sophisticated, I'll sing something like / Travel Alone, which Noel Coward wrote for me. I seldom sing it because the home folks wouldn't know what I was talking about...