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...Chuck Ruhr, 36, owner of a Minneapolis ad agency, lives a long commute?by Minneapolis standards???from his office. But he can make the 25 miles of freeway in 30 or 40 minutes, likes to point out that within an hour after leaving work, he can be sitting on his pontoon boat in the middle of White Bear Lake, enjoying a drink and watching the sun go down. He and his wife and two children live in a 1912-vintage five-bedroom house on the shores of the lake, with their own beach and dock. His wife's optometry business...
...Japan to follow will be for her to drop the growth rate [from 11.1% in the 1960s] to 5% in the 1970s. That level will be maintained through the '80s and '90s. By the final decade of this century, Japan will have caught up with the U.S. in living standards???at least in things like sewage, roads and tapwater systems. For the last 30 years of the century, Japan will continue to suffer from youth riots, urban guerrillas, environmental disruptions, parliamentary crises and weak political leadership. Nevertheless, Japan's parliamentarianism is likely to survive...
Government's first priority is to enact environmental standards???and then enforce the law. Regulatory agencies should do far more to assess new products and policies before they harm man and nature. At all levels, governments must join in regional attacks on air and river pollution that cross political boundaries. At the federal level, the maze of agencies with conflicting environmental responsibilities must be reordered. While the Agriculture Department pays farmers to drain wetlands, for example, the Interior Department pays to preserve them. Worse, the farm-subsidy program encourages the misuse of toxic chemicals, one-crop farming that destroys ecological...
...rest of America. Unlike the destitute of other times and places, its inhabitants are not usually distinguishable by any of the traditional telltales of want: hunger-distended bellies or filthy rags, beggar's bowls or the lineaments of despair. Harlem's broad avenues?clean by Calcutta's standards???bop to the stride of lively men and women in multihued clothing; the tawdry tenements of Chicago's South Side are forested with TV antennas. Even in Mississippi's Tunica County, one of the poorest in the nation, where according to the latest census eight out of every ten families live below...
After Leahy, the deluge. Terry Brennan took over as coach, did reasonably well (32 wins, 18 losses)?except by Notre Dame standards???and gave way to Joe Kuharich in 1959. Kuharich, a top pro coach with the National Football League's Washington Redskins, was no improvement. Over two seasons, 23 of his players had to be operated on for knee injuries. What's more, Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh (TIME cover, Feb. 9. 1962), was determinedly hauling up the school's academic standards, saw no reason to grant exemptions to football players. The upshot: Kuharich...