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CAN DO. Dr. Edgar Dessen, now 47, a physician, had been president of the Chamber of Commerce during the darkest days. Under his determined guidance, a 550-acre site near town was bought for $10 an acre as an "industrial development park." Not long after, the Pennsylvania state legislature passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pennsylvania: Hope in Appalachia | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

His followers call it "living death." For heading the African National Congress, an organization dedicated to passive resistance against apartheid, the South African government five years ago banished Albert John Luthuli to his 25-acre sugar farm near the Zulu village of Groutville and to the little town of Stanger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Another Five Years | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

Wild animals are mostly a municipal matter today, but they are more popular than ever. Of the 30 largest cities in the U.S. only two do not have at least one zoo (Minneapolis and Newark). Recently Los Angeles announced plans for a new $6,600,000 zoo designed by Architect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: News in Zoos | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

> ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.: The President visited the shabby home of Sharecropper William Marlow, 39, his wife, his mother, and seven children. To prepare for Johnson, they had scrubbed their place for three days. At the request of the White House, an acre of oats was prematurely harvested to provide a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: When Patriotism & Politics Coincide | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

The University offered to improve the Corporal Burns playground to the tune of $200,000 yesterday, but local residents were up in arms at the first whisper that the City might sell outright the acre-and-a-half area to Harvard.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forty Object To Playground Sale At City Council | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

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