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...homes to blossom in dells or along breezy lakeshores. Opera companies and rep theaters haunt the deserts at night. Cultural traditions and folkways are everywhere on display. This year is the bicentennial of Mozart's death. New England mountain greenery will echo with his works; a traveler can head westward, enjoying the composer's pieces in big towns and small and, in late August, take in a grand Amadeus finale in the vastness of the Hollywood Bowl...
...that football is no longer an option, Callahan has begun to pursue other paths. After graduation, he will travel westward to Los Angeles, where he will begin work in a law firm. Callahan hopes to eventually go to law school at U.C.L.A...
With their mission accomplished, Buxeda and his two friends--tired of grandmother's house after a few days--decided to swing westward to New Orleans. Or, as they might call it, "Alligator Land...
...first tradition of American foreign policy, appropriately, is America first. It was often isolationist, as in George Washington's warning in his Farewell Address against permanent alliances. But it was not necessarily so. (Washington had been interested in westward expansion since colonial days.) Our interests might compel us to pick fights; as America expanded in the world economy, and as weapons became transoceanic, we also came to have interests in such things as peace and stability. But we would continue to stay out of fights that did not directly concern us, and our concerns did not automatically include every instance...
...such limits on themselves, Poles in particular are beginning to look anxiously eastward to the Soviet Union and hoping that its citizens remain tightly shackled. Should the Soviets do what the West has been urging for decades -- allow its citizens to travel abroad freely -- Poles fear a stampede westward into Poland. And if things get bad enough in the Soviet Union, which some Polish officials consider likely, many Soviets will come regardless of any change in regulations. "There is no way we can police the whole eastern border," says an official. "It is just too porous...