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...greatly appreciated the Essay on the foreign visitor in America [Aug. 26] and believe it will contribute toward creating a better awareness of this movement of people, so important to our domestic economy and to a fuller international understanding of this country...
...always be an extension of our domestic policy," and for that reason he deeply mistrusted any international experts who do not know their U.S. politics. "The reason for this is very simple. Politics are the means by which men give collective voice to their hopes and aspirations." Were a visitor from Mars to be brought back to earth "from one of the more memorable space probes of the Johnson Administration," the President continued, he would find "a zone of political tranquillity" in the U.S.-"except in election years." But the political wars, said Johnson, are waged with words...
...longer can the visitor scowl at the architecture as California gaudy or Hollywood vulgar or Spanish phony. While Los Angeles, like many big cities, has mile after mile of uninspired, tractlike homes, more and more of its buildings and residences are the work of some of the world's best architects: Richard J. Neutra, John Lautner, Lloyd Wright, William Pereira, Victor Gruen, Welton Becket. Tasteful homes have sprouted everywhere-along the streets and boulevards, in the glens and canyons, around the foothills, up the sides of the hills along the beaches, out into the Mojave Desert...
...testimony to the miracles of the space age abound like grace. Samples: Intrepid small boys with .22 rifles near Rio Vista, Calif., last December got in some shots at a UFO hanging about the town water tower and extorted a satisfactory twang and an angry red glow from the visitor. Some Italian farmers pelted a UFO near Milan in October 1954 with rotten oranges, scoring, they claimed, some hits. They did not hit any of the little men, who were about 4 ft. high, wore light-colored pants, helmets and other equipment, and were "scurrying" about. UFOs were bigger...
Pina greets her visitor at the railroad station, and they exchange names in embarrassed mumbles. Back home, Pina shyly displays a tacky, bricabracky cottage and the inevitable pets: a dopey turtle that scrapes tediously around the living room, a hoarse parrot that mindlessly advises visitors to "take a blue crayon and color the sky." Then she lays a few cards on the table: she works in a feed store, owns her house outright, has 200,000 lire in the bank. Adolfo follows suit: he works in a bookstore and is dead broke...