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Today South Viet Nam throbs with a pride and power, above all an esprit, scarcely credible against the summer's somber vista. Government desertion rates have plummeted and recruitment is up, and it is now the Communists who are troubled with rising defections. Some roads are being reopened for the first time in years, and the much-vaunted Viet Cong plan to move into their mass-attack "third phase" is now no more than a bedraggled dream...
...brace of 30-ft. by 35-ft. murals, swarming with the turbulent will-o'-the-wisps of his own endless fantasy. From their vantage on the Met's grand tier, the over-two-story-high murals will glow through the glassed vaults to dominate a city vista more spacious than the Piazza San Marco in Venice...
...years from now this scene would have been transformed into a vista of sterile concrete and whizzing lines of smoke-spuming automobiles. It would have been, but for the intervention of a chorus of protests, some fortuitous political guillotining, and, mostly, the galvanic public relations wizardry of the man Time calls "U.S. Publicist Number One," Edward L. Bernays...
...parent who doesn't live in a cork-lined room has probably heard Mary Poppins (Buena Vista) by now, and probably feels that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disneyland), Alice in Wonderland (Disneyland) and Peter and the Wolf (Columbia) are members of the family...
...Ghettos. By June 30, VISTA officials expect to have 2,000 volunteers in training or on assignment around the U.S., with 5,000 at work a year later. So far, VISTA has announced 49 projects in 20 states, has promised a total of 239 volunteers to work in Job Corps training camps, migrant-worker camps, on Indian reservations, in big-city ghettos, and mental hospitals. Last week's graduates, including a 57-year-old divorcee from Columbia, Mo., a former personnel supervisor for the Chrysler Corp., and a 19-year-old California co-ed who had never before been...