Good Things About The U.S. Today [antikvár]

and abtoad that the United States, once regatded as an eiiample for the world, is beiag over-run hf ciime^ corruption, violence, race riots, and antiwardémonstrations. ,.There ís much of ali íKis and more, of course, and our mm$ media, chasing the ''news'' of the day, have little space or time for much else. This produces the sensation rhat the only things deserving attention are the dreadful onesThe cumulative effect of daily reports of this kind, picturiílg the United States as a country unfit for human habitation, might be expected to frighten off strangers from venmring toward these shores, Yet foreigners continue to arrive from the four corners of the earthfrom Russia and Eastern Europe, when they are fortunate enough to escape the iron grip of Communist police states, as Stalin's daughter managed to do; from the underdeveloped areas of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, ovefwhelmed by poverty and disease; and from Latin America, where military regimes and economie adversity have installed themselves.They come from advanced countries as welL Britain and other West European countries are disturbed by a brain drain/^ resulting from the émigration of some of their best minds to live and to work in the United States, An English television producer, shuttling back and forth between London and New York, finds himself attracted more and more to this side of the Atlantic because this is where "the grass is greener/'This raises the question of whether the smoke of unrest and discontent in the United States may have blinded us to the fact that there are other things besides the ones we find in the daily headlines and on the television screen. We must be doing something right to merit the attoition of ali the queues stretching around the world, lin ing up before U.S. consulates, waitiiig for visas to enter this count^. If that is the case, what are the good things jwhich attract men, women, and children to this country today, as in the past ? Since we seldom hear of such things any more (which should soon make them eligible for news, this book undertakes to set some of them down.