The FSI Audio-Visual staff, under the direction of Thomas E. Bower, assisted in the arrangement of the illustrations contained in the book, and made many useful suggestions on general format during the preparation of the text for publication. The drawings in Appendix G are by Souksomboun Sayasithsena, the photographs in Appendix C were taken by Carl Stench, and those in Appendix Q were provided by the Peace Corps.
I would like to thank the following authors and publishers for permission to quote non-technical materials:
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for lines from 'The Well-dressed Man with a Beard' by Wallace Stevens; Frederick Seidel for lines from 'The Last Entries in Mayakovsky's Notebook;' William Stafford for lines from 'Freedom;' Random House, Inc. for lines from W. H. Auden's 'Their Lonely Betters,' in his Collected Shorter Poems 1927–1957; Cambridge University Press for the quotation at the beginning of Chapter 6, taken from G. C. Coulton, Social Life in Britain.
The quotations in Chapter 9 are from W. H. Auden, Dave Hamelech, and William T. Bard.
Final thanks are due to my family, for their patience with my frequent travel, and for allowing me to write much of this book on their time.
Arlington, Virginia
June, 1971
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