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...Laos, where it has spent $310 million in the past six years. This is $26 for every Laotian every year, or almost half the per capita income. A "retired" West Point brigadier, Andrew Jackson Boyle, directs the entire U.S. supply and training operation from headquarters in Vientiane-where the suburbia-like U.S. colony has taken on a stripped-for-action look since the evacuation of 200 dependents to Bangkok seven months ago. West Point's "retired" Major Eleazar Parmly does his best to help the government drive along Astrid Highway. In the hill country, Central Intelligence Agency operatives roam...
...Alamos' longtime residents can claim many friends in the New Mexico communities near by. Los Alamos' young married couples (average age of the AEC staffer is 39) entertain each other at casual patio dinners where the talk is more dazzling than the food, throng to a suburbia-sized horde (146) of civic organizations ranging from the Flying Saucer Square Dance Club to the Military Order of Lady Bugs. Dress is studiously informal: a woman in hat and gloves is clearly going on a trip "outside." Except on scientific business or for shopping trips to Santa Fe (24 miles...
Though women control the nation's men and money, good feminine minds seem to be going to seed in P.T.A. suburbia. Last week peppery President Mary Bunting of Radcliffe College-herself a noted microbiologist and mother of four -announced a unique chance for "intellectually displaced" women. Called the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, it is aimed at women who abandoned academic careers to raise families...
Newsmen in other areas of the state, however, discount the predictions of victory issued by their Northern colleagues. They claim that Democratic strength in Hudson and Mercer will be offset by the Republican vote in Bergen and Essex, a county that includes heavily-Negro Newark, and wealthy suburbia...
...milieu of mediocrity typified by false status symbols, development-house suburbia and permanented hairdos, we praise the commonplace, criticize the unusual. Jacqueline Kennedy is a standout, not only for her natural beauty and discerning taste, but for her possession of a lost art in the U.S. today: the art of being an individualist...