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> Bright new cars in sordid streets, ranch-type or split-level homes beside garbage-filled gutters, the family picnic basket in chromium beside the polluted stream-these are symbols of a national pattern of expenditure in desperate need of redress.

https://www.nytimes.com/1959/02/08/archives/now-the-challenge-of-an-economic-sputnik-khrushchevs-boast-that.html
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Now the Challenge of an Economic Sputnik; Khrushchev's boast that Russia can maintain a rate of growth more than double the West's, says Miss Ward, requires the free world to re-examine its needs and its methods.

B Ward article on USSR challenge to West; illus

The New York Times