Essay: THE IMPACT OF THE AMERICAN WAY

HO CHI MINH has switched to Salems, forsaking his usual Philip Morrises and Camels. This interesting piece of news was recently reported by a foreign diplomat in a cable from embattled Hanoi and was duly passed on by his government to the U.S. State Department, which is still pondering its significance. In France, Premier Georges Pompidou recently complained before un meeting of the Society for the Protection of the French Language that it was really a bit much to arrive at Orly Airport and be told by the hôtesse d'air that le Welcome Bureau d'Air France was at one's disposal. And...

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