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...questions: What color is Santa? What is his religion? What is his ancestry? Santa is white, Protestant, and Anglo. Some say he's Dutch, but at any rate, we can settle on West European. The great Santa Claus, kids observe, has all these characteristics. Necessarily, the children associate this WASPness with good. As a WASP child on your way to Macy's in New York City, you pictured a WASP Santa Claus. As a black child on your way to Macy's you too would imagine a WASP Santa after your first few visits. A black Santa, or a Santa...
...Wasp Corps...
With that many Americans in the suburbs, the myth has shattered in diversity. Suburbia is something more than the stereotype of buttoned-down Wasp commuters and wives who slurp "tee many martoonis" at the country club. "Gary is as much a suburb of Chicago as Evanston," says Political Analyst Richard Scammon. The suburbs have become increasingly heterogeneous with the influx of blue-collar workers who now have middle-class incomes and attitudes. As Scammon puts it: "Workers now aren't concerned about Taft-Hartley; they're concerned about crabgrass." Along with crabgrass, ironically, come many of the problems...
...pilot, once gave a classic demonstration of chutzpa when he was dispatched to evacuate an injured sailor from an Israeli freighter in the Mediterranean. Yarom's gas ran low before he could find the freighter; noticing that U.S. helicopters were landing aboard the 40,000-ton Sixth Fleet carrier Wasp, Yarom followed them onto the deck. He was immediately summoned to the bridge, where a U.S. officer demanded...
Yarom knew full well that the largest ship in the Israeli navy could have fitted comfortably on the Wasp's flight deck. The Israeli navy includes one frigate, one destroyer, four submarines and twelve missile boats. Five of the missile boats were spirited away from a Cherbourg dock last Christmas in an escape that caused international excitement. Egypt, by comparison, has five destroyers, twelve submarines and 20 missile boats divided between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. A sixth destroyer was sunk by Israeli planes in retaliation for an Egyptian attack on an Israeli fishing boat...