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...carry theory into practice. Only this assumption will have the skill and the strength to outlast the repressions and resources of corporate America. Otherwise, all the good works performed by radicals on the surface of American society will be like those desert flowers, so brilliant and short-lived, that whither with the first long hot day and leave the cruel surfaces of the desert hills as they were before...
...Whither Barataria. At the government's request, a three-member committee, headed by Sir Val Duncan, chairman of Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd., has been studying British representation abroad for a year. Their report, just released, may upend yet another British institution. Comparing Britain to "a man who decides that his requirements no longer justify the upkeep of a Rolls-Royce," the committee recommended "a significant reduction" in the size of the diplomatic service, a 50% slash in the size of overseas information departments, and a one-third cut in the number of armed-service attaches. Moreover, said...
...recommended, the foreign service should continue a full range of activity. In the "outer area"-meaning most of the rest of the world-its report could find no justification for large information missions or for detailed political reporting other than "an occasional forward-looking assessment of a general 'whither Barataria' nature." Should the committee's recommendations be accepted, most of the former colonies that imperial viceroys once bestrode will become threadbare outposts of salesmanship diplomacy...
...meeting broke up quickly, the nostalgic plaint of one girl was barely audible. "Whither the inviolable sanctity of a girls' dormitory?" she said...
Between Two Worlds. "I'm not a 'Whither America?' man myself," Cooke says. Rather, he is a once-over-lightly man who hovers at ease between two worlds. Though he has lived in the U.S. since the late 1930s and became a U.S. citizen in 1941, he has resisted total Americanization, and maintains a reasonable facsimile of a British stiff upper lip. He has lost much of his Brit ish accent, but then it is not American either; it has been dubbed a "NATO accent." Always keeping an eye cocked for"what's American in America...