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Whatever the direct cause of last week's bloodshed, the underlying malaise in Dixie Hills is obvious enough. Rats and roaches infest every building, plumbing is erratic, owners refuse to make repairs or even plant grass in the dusty, barren areas between buildings. Trash and garbage have been collected irregularly, gaping holes in the streets have gone unrepaired, and recreational facilities have been nonexistent. Most serious, more than half of the younger men are unemployed. "They just hang around the streets," says Richard Freeman, chairman of the board of aldermen's police committee. "The trouble is, nobody does...
Nauruans, however, still have a major worry: since 1900, more than 38 million tons of their atoll have been scooped up and shipped out, leaving only barren, gaping holes. The natives fear that they may soon have little territory left on which to enjoy their wealth. The most probable solution is that filthy rich Nauru will import dirt to replace the phosphates...
Returns from Monday's CRIMSON rock 'n' roll quiz reveal the pressing urgency of a course in this important subject. Harvard has always been considered a barren field for this corn, but each succeeding year that it is allowed to lie fallow the prospects of a respectable harvest will diminish. At one time and in proper places almost all the songs referred to in the quiz were commonly played, and often prayed to. But with the trend toward younger generations, a whole culture may soon be lost...
With the corporation's 80 hostelries dotting the earth from Nicosia to Vancouver, Barren Hilton, 39, Conrad's son and head of the Hilton operation in the U.S., figures it's time to start thinking of farther-out sites for another inn. In a speech before the American Astronautical Society in Dallas, Barren launched into a description of his plans for the Lunar Hilton, an underground 100-room hotel to be built just below the moon's crust. "In almost every respect it will be physically like an earth Hilton," he explained, calculating that construction...
...huge estates. It will be a much harder and longer task to eradicate the inevitable result of Brazil's farm troubles: the sprawling belts of poverty and misery throughout the countryside, where 50% of Brazil's people try to scrabble out a living. In the Northeast, a barren, beaten land more than twice the size of Texas, average per-capita income is down to $100 a year, illiteracy runs 75% and the life span of the area's 28 million people has been cut by hunger and disease to an appalling 35. As the Northeast...