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Built into the very timber and structure, the energy and bravura of the sixties' new journalism, there has always been such cultural one-up-man ship. As readers of Esquire and New York, we might not be all that very different from the type of personalities we read about, but just the plain and simple fact of the situation, that a writer should be guiding us through a critical evaluation- however obliquely that criticism might be made- seemed to suggest our own superiority. It certainly contributed to our self-consciousness. And as long as we were conscious of our foibles...
...reversed Sukarno's policy of isolationism and re-integrated his country with the extensive cash-and-trade nexus of the West. The government has become increasingly dependent on massive inputs of American aid, and has encouraged an immense flow of foreign investment, which is thus far concentrating on oil, timber, and minerals. All of these actions have incidentally benefited the American corporate community, many of whose members have eagerly flocked to the area...
...played a major role in an attempt to alter the direction the economy was going." And the new direction clearly is not in the interests of the Indonesian people. As Newsweek reports, "So far, foreign investment has focused primarily on the extraction of raw materials-such as oil, timber, and aluminum-and will do little to help the general economy. In fact, few of these investments will have much immediate impact at all" (June 23, 1969). In the long run, they will leave Indonesia stripped of its natural resources. These governments do, however, act in the interest of foreign investors...
...wheel of his racer Tree, Hansberger swooped down the ramp past two middle-aged competitors to record his second straight triumph in the "Big Boys" division of the annual Treasure Valley Soapbox Derby in Boise, Idaho. For senior racers who may hope to emulate him, the timber industrialist has sage advice: "As in many things in life, maintain a low silhouette...
...Wednesday night's overreaction. Hundreds of police secured the Square from a tiny leaderless group that had no idea quite what it wanted to do. Militance was demanded, but the group could not get itself together to go into the Square. So parking meters were broken apart, and fence timber broken off to build a barricade across Mass Ave. And then the police charge, and the gas, and the small group running along with the many onlookers...