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...city woes afflict South Milwaukee. In the 32 years that Police Chief Henry R. Tylicki has been on the force, he says, there have been no murders at all. Although a handful of blacks work in the town's busy factories, none dare to live in South Milwaukee. Residents are not particularly sympathetic to blacks. "We made it. We got what we wanted on our own." says a middle-aged workingman as he quaffs a beer. "Why can't they...
...diseases that can afflict the coffee tree, the most devastating is caused by a yellow-orange fungus called Hemileia vastatrix. In the late 19th century, when it ravaged the coffee plantations of Ceylon and India, the fungus helped change Britain into a nation of tea drinkers. Now it has invaded the New World, spreading rapidly through a Texas-sized area of southeastern Brazil and threatening 2 billion plants that yield a third of the world's coffee...
...behind him-is Belfast-born, Hollywood-drawn and Malibu-quartered. The fictional Fergus is a novelist in the throes of divorce and debilitating screen work. He is also hopelessly involved with a young, free-spirited mistress. So far, so familiar as a portrait of the built-in plights that afflict writer-in-California residence...
Diseases are no less mortal than the people they afflict. So argues Dr. Bernard Straus of New York Medical College in the current Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. As Straus points out, dozens of mankind's most awful afflictions have ceased to exist...
...mile after mile of tin-roof shacks, and reflects from the waters of serpentine rivers. On the ground, unfortunately, the city has lost its glitter. Though it remained gracious and unhurried until four or five years ago, reports TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark, Saigon now suffers from the ills that afflict modern cities-and then some. No fewer than 894,000 vehicles, ranging from Lambrettas to lumbering trucks, jam the city's streets. Their fumes engulf Saigon in a noxious blue haze that is killing the city's stately tamarind trees. Sidewalks are crowded with vendors. Alleys are scenes...