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...Vaus still had trouble winning the confidence of East Harlem's ganglads. And it was not really until he met tough Pete Thomas, who spoke the language of East Harlem as it can only be spoken by those who have been raised in its asphalt jungle, that Vaus made significant headway. After Vaus persuaded Thomas to work full time with Y.D.I., the organization became an important factor in East Harlem life. Some might suspect Vaus and Thomas, with their criminal backgrounds, of being a couple of Fagin types, but the doubters do not include the cops, educators or social...
From coast to coast, on asphalt playgrounds, backyard lawns, city streets, municipal parks and seaside beaches, the newest sports craze in the U.S. is the old game of touch football. The sport that once belonged to the nation's scurrying small fry has suddenly been borrowed by grownups with a yen to work off energy, ease aging legs into shape, sweat out a hangover, or realize Mittyesque dreams of gridiron glory. Touch has lately become an obsession with college kids, wheezing gaffers, giggling secretaries-and, of course, the entire clan of President-elect John F. Kennedy, who, according...
Labor-saving machinery is also playing a big part in holding down costs. Aurora Ill.'s Barber-Greene Co. built a giant $500,000 mobile asphalt plant for Fort Lauderdale's Mobil Asphalt Co., complete with mixing machines, road paver, bunkhouse and machine shop, which rolls under its own power to a job. In a matter of hours it can be set up and with one man operating it, produce 250 tons of asphalt an hour. It will finish in 70 days a 65-mile stretch of highway which was scheduled to take 150 days. Milwaukee...
...pressure on more expensive cellophane. Produced as a fiber, it promises to make the best no-ironing blend of cloth. Laverne's "invisible" chairs are made of the plastic, make any room look bigger, less cluttered. Esso is experimenting with colored highways made from a blend of asphalt and tinted polypropylene. With the routes of a cloverleaf indicated by color and with highway signs to match, U.S. motorists would lave less trouble finding their way through superhighway mazes. Hercules Powder Co., pioneer producer of polypropylene, has developed a new glass-and-plastic material for a third-stage shell...
West Side Story. Romeo and Juliet in the asphalt jungle...