Mr. Oberbeck is an Alicia Patterson Fund award winner, on leave from Newsweek, Inc. This article may be published, with credit to S. K. Oberbeck and the Alicia Patterson Fund. Marciana Marina, Isola D’Elba—The part that media play in the twin currents of revolution and
Marciana Marina, Isola D’Elba—It might be well to begin with some words of writer/critic Kenneth Tynan, written in April of 1967 after a trip to Czechoslovakia: “The Hungarians showed their hand too soon, and were savagely slapped down. The Poles embarked shortly afterward on an
Lausanne, Switzerland—There is a comfortable symbolism in rioting college students storming the school’s computer center and wrecking one of its expensive machines. This has happened in several North American institutions. The symbolism is comfortable for journalists; uncomfortable for college deans. The students recognize that the
“Technology is governed by scientific principles, some of which are understood…”—Sir George Thomson Lausanne, Switzerland—The Future Business (FB) is not telling it like it is, but how it’s likely to be—if everyone cooperates. It grows daily in importance and prominence. It is vastly comprehensive and
Lausanne, Switzerland—“March 4 is a movement, not a day” proclaims one button. “Stop ABM” urges the other. There is something eloquent and immediate about button slogans, whether they are serious or humorous. Often, they are flashes of compressed anger, ironic insight or bald intention. And
