Category: Social change

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Blurred by the hazy air (not nearly so smoggy, though, as it often is) and almost obscured by sprawling tracts of houses are attractive mountains alongside the valley.

The Santa Clara Valley’s -“Appointment with Destiny”

San Jose, California October, 1971 Eye-smarting, mustard-colored haze hides all but the shadowy outlines of the mountains on each side of the long, flat valley. Automobiles push and shove through crowded concrete and neon strips of stores, service stations, car lots and taco stands. Here

A view of the first small cluster of townhouses and greenery at Park Forest South.

The Midwest: An Unlikely Laboratory For New Towns

Freeways came late to the urban Midwest, after they had been tried to relieve traffic congestion in the crowded East and had created an entirely new pattern of living in California. Today, the multi-lane divided highways marked by prominent blue and red interstate route signs

The Marginal Men

The marginal ten, the wretched stragglers for survival on the fringes of farm and city, may already number half a billion. By 1980 they will surpass a billion, by 1990 two billion. Can we imagine any human order surviving with so gross a mass of

Here is a quick crossword puzzle to test your image of the Arab woman today: Number one across: the Arab woman best known to the West today whose name is often associated with trouble. Number one down: one of the best known Arabic words in the English language referring to that part of the house allotted to females and also referring to the wives, concubines, or other females occupying the woman's sector of the house. The Answers: Leila Harem (Khaled)

A Puzzling New Breed of Arab Woman

Here is a quick crossword puzzle to test your image of the Arab woman today: Number one across: the Arab woman best known to the West today whose name is often associated with trouble. Number one down: one of the best known Arabic words in

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It’s a Revolution All Right

Rome   May 2, 1971   The disintegration of Pakistan. The collapse of a government in Turkey. Heightened rural violence in the Philippines. Is it mere coincidence that political explosions have followed spectacular advances in agricultural production in all three countries? From the perspective of