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Like Perry Como and Red Skelton, Iraq's Strongman Premier Nuri asSaid believes in the custom of summer replacements. Last week, as Baghdad's asphalt sidewalks turned sticky-soft in the sweltering desert heat, Nuri turned over Iraq's government to Senator Ali Jawdat, then went back to poring over a map on which was circled in ink the fashionable south German spa, Bühlerhohe, near Baden-Baden. First, Nuri confided, he was going to London for a medical checkup, then off to the Black Forest. Later he was returning to London briefly to look after...
...program is finished in 1972 (or a few years later, should Congress decide to stretch it out), most of the U.S. roads now in use will be obsolete and in need of rebuilding. Last year 80,000 miles of federal highways alone became obsolete, and thousands of miles of asphalt road built in the '20s are due to outlive their usefulness in the late '50s. Thus, the road-building industry can look forward to a long-range boom that will extend many years beyond...
Great areas of the land they settled in are the same today as when they found them. In the whole vast area, there are less than 400 miles of asphalt roads. Such railroads as exist bull their way through the bush in short, fitful spurts. But with startling frequency, in what was yesterday only a wilderness, such modern cities as Salisbury, Lusaka, Nairobi and Accra hive and hum in a fury of 20th century commerce...
...suddenly prosperous, make good customers for the show windows filled with gleaming new appliances and U.S.-made farm machines. Los Mochis, the sugar-mill center of the Fuerte valley, is just beginning to awaken. A new hotel is going up, and the streets are due for a coat of asphalt as soon as sewer lines are laid...
...Tomb of Asphalt. Through the night thousands of Chinese ranged the streets, looting and burning shops, factories and schools considered to have pro-Communist affiliations. Then, though it had begun as an anti-Communist eruption, the violence gradually changed complexion. The crowds began singling out foreigners. Europeans were dragged from their cars, beaten mercilessly while their cars were burned. By the morning of the second day, blood lust was running high. Along Kowloon's broad Nathan Road some rioters overturned and fired a taxi bearing Swiss Vice Consul Fritz Ernst and his wife. The escaping driver fell into...