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Quemoy was once a barren outpost, but Chiang Kai-shek is said to have decreed in 1951: "Make it green." So the Nationalists have planted 70 million seedling trees, mostly Australian pine. They have since added bananas, mangoes, pears and apples. There are fields of corn and sorghum that help to make the island's 62,000 civilian inhabitants self-sufficient. The island even has a frail industrial base, a pottery plant and a liquor distillery. "For the soldiers, we have a lot of peanut candy shops and billiard parlors," a guide remarks...
...midst lies Kendall Square, 24 controversial acres of barren land in two plots known as the Triangle and Quadrangle. The Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA), the city's semi-independent urban renewal agency, has plans for the site: offices, luxury apartments, and a motel would occupy the Triangle while the Quadrangle would be reserved for "job-intensive" uses...
...Barren Area. Ethiopia was also directly involved in a second wrangle involving neighboring Somalia's claim to the border province of Ogaden-a barren, sandy area populated mainly by nomadic Somalis. The area's value has increased considerably since the discovery of natural gas there. There is evidence of oil deposits as well. Eventually, after hearing statements by both sides, the O.A.U. agreed to shunt the issue off to an eight-nation "good-offices" committee, for a report next year...
...greater challenge to scientists lies in finding ways of utilizing the earth's internal heat in the vast areas that are relatively barren of subterranean water. One proposal, under test by the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, involves sinking two side-by-side holes deep into the earth until they reach hot basement rock (approximately 1,000° F.). Then by pumping cold water into one hole, the scientists hope to extract steam from the other. Project Director Morton Smith reports that test borings to a depth of only 2,500 ft. (v. the final goal...
...politics are set by whether the last influx from Philadelphia was middle-or upper-class. There are no pretensions of communality, no historic town squares now hidden: high-rise apartments take their proud and random places next to split-level housing developments and an occasional patch of barren land. Over the last eight years, a "right side of the tracks" has developed, established by the construction of "wooded estates" on old farmland. Most of the drug-use takes place over there, as well as the horseback-riding and country club affairs. Otherwise, there's no culture except for what...