Word: todays
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Americans in years past have found it unthinkable that they might be cast as anyone's bad guys. Today, a sizable enough minority, especially among the young, sees the Establishment-notably the military-as uniformly villainous. It would be helpful for everyone to demythologize his thinking instead of nourishing absolute images of good guys and bad guys. Or better yet, to settle all disputes between the two with Frisbees instead of missiles...
...Illia, who was deposed by the military in 1966: "It is a concrete diagnosis, but not a cure. The situation is more serious than is expressed by Nixon." Brazilian Economist Roberto Campos was pleased with Nixon's approach, which was less condescending than past U.S. attitudes. "The U.S. today is much less certain that it understands the realities of life in Latin America," said Campos. "That is a healthy recognition." More characteristic, however, was the complaint aired by the Chilean paper Clarin, which claimed that "frustration was the sentiment after the speech...
...believe the sales talk. "You know, a lot of board chairmen are here not because of the job, but because they want to live in California. Some top executives live here but commute to New York for five days a week. In fact, the speed of travel and communications today has ended the inferiority complex the California businessman used to have. The California industrialist is liberated from that old provincial feeling. And he shows it. He is tanned, he swims a lot, he is healthy?people are interested in the body out here. The California businessman is a rounded...
They created what is still today virtually regarded as four different states. In the rugged but temperate north, they built San Francisco, a swashbuckling port city that reflected equally the liberal influence of Europe and the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S.; hence the light touch of cosmopolitanism that suffuses the town. Those who populated the rolling, semitropical south?especially in the years during and following World War II?were mostly the staid Midwesterners and Southerners who came to buy so many square feet of sunshine, and the blue-collar workers who filled the factories; hence the heavy strain of conservatism...
...history of California's business enterprise reads almost like a parody of a chamber-of-commerce oration. In 1904 an immigrant's son, Amadeo Peter Giannini, founded a poor man's bank in a San Francisco saloon. Today the Bank of America is the world's largest, with assets of $25 billion, 952 Stateside branches and 94 overseas, and a creditcard system used by 25 million worldwide subscribers. Another poor boy. Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton, who started out as a government clerk, is one of the pioneers of the conglomerates with his Litton Industries. It was California that sent...