ISSUE DATE: July 13, 1968; 241st year, issue no. 14

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COVER: The New American Family, by Phyllis McGinley. Beginning a six-part series.

ARTICLES:
The American sickness (Affairs of State) ... Stewart Alsop.
Uncle Sam coddles the consumer (Speaking Out) ... James J. Kilpatrick.
I hate them (Points West) ... John Gregory Dunne.
'The worst jail I've ever seen' ... Bill Davidson.
'I was afraid to shut my eves' ... Dorothy West as told to Muriel Daridson.
A visit with the artful Dodger ... Gerald Holland.
The new American family ... Phyllis McGinley.
How I learned to stop worrying and trust the State Dept. ... Anne Chamberlin.
How we loot the foreign brain market ... Martin Mayer.
The surgeons of Delta Med ... Dale Minor.

FICTION:
Journey to the fishing waters ... Morton Fineman. Illustrated by Guy Deel.
The prisoner's dog ... Albert Maitz. Illustrated by Jean Huens.

DEPARTMENTS: Letters; Post scripts; My kind of people (cartoons); Hazel; America, America; Editorial.
Cover... Clarles Moore.

FROM THE EDITOR: Since fireworks are illegal, we are celebrating the Fourth of July by launching a series on the New American Family. On page 26 Phyllis McGinley shoots off a star shell that illuminates the contemporary American family. She sees them as new pioneers -- hardy, ingenious, self-sufficient. Miss McGinley pooh-poohs the critics, the doom-sayers who cry the collapse of the American family, the dissolution of our society. This fresh, optimistic voice should rise above the querulous, neurotic discourse abroad in our land. ft is about time that we cooled the raging criticisms of the American character. As we think about the Fourth of July, the birthday of our nation, let's take another look at ourselves. Let's make an independent assessment of what we are and where we are.

We Americans are an enormously diverse people riding the highest velocity of change in the world. As a people we have been shuffled at high speed, with whole populations redistributed from the country to the city in a comparatively few years. Millions of our black people have migrated to the north and into the perils of the free-enterprise system; and millions of fortunate Americans have soared to affluence. The American family is the surfer, riding these awesome waves of change -- fighting against being wiped out -- and making it to shore. The crazy forces of these critical times are spinning oil' fateful events.

The assassinations of Martin Luther King and of Robert Kennedy have left us shuddering, wondering if we are all covered with guilt and doomed by the violence in our national character. How guilty are we? How violent are we? What is to become of us? These arc dark questions, but the same dark questions were asked at the time when the Declaration of independence was signed. And out of the chaos of the revolutionary days came the American identity and America as a nation. What is the portent of these times?

I do not believe that the assassinations were symptomatic of the American character, but I believe that our national response was. When King was buried in Atlanta, more than 100,000 people came to the city to pay tribute, and flags were flown at half-mast over the nation. More than 150,000 waited in line for as much as six hours to see Senator Kennedy's casket in St. Patrick's Cathedral, and in Philadelphia, people scattered roses in front of Senator Kennedy's funeral train. There was a great up-swelling of response to the deaths of these two men -- both great Americans, each in his own way. Their funerals brought the people of the nation together the same way that a death in the family will bring the members together. Somehow, there has been a reassertion of the American identity, a rediscovery of the ideals that gave us our distinction. We can celebrate this.
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