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...have to travel very far. The place for the first U.S.-Soviet summit conference in six years was no Yalta or Geneva. Rather, as the wife of New Jersey's Governor put it, it was "Smalltown, U.S.A.," the little (pop. 11,689) college community of Glassboro, 135 miles from Washington, near the Colonial farming settlement and crossroads once known as Long A-Comin...
...demise of Gaullism in France. In the wake of Defferre's failure, it was symptomatic that Paris was talking about the possible candidature of onetime Premier Antoine Pinay. Pinay would appeal to the pro-Atlantic, anti-Gaullist conservative vote. But he is also the very symbol of prewar, smalltown, middle-class Catholic France-and he is, at 73, only 13 months younger than Charles de Gaulle himself...
...living in the middle with a garden all around, live all around and put the garden in the middle. It is a natural solution to the problem of how to achieve privacy in crowded areas, but it has been slow coming to the U.S., which started off as a smalltown country whose settlers and their houses were few and far between-a place where people had to sit out front on a summer evening to see what was going on. Over the years, however, the front porch faded from importance and today, with more people living in more houses, with...
ELECTION YEAR IN AVERAGETOWN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Salem. N.J., like it or not, has been chosen to play the title role in David Brinkley's report on smalltown political attitudes...
...making one man -any man-ultimately responsible for every single project, however big or small, and that he stands to take the blame if that project sours. As soon as he joins the organization, each candidate is tossed into the decision-making maelstrom, perhaps as chief of a smalltown office or traffic department, where...