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...National Security"; 3) "Fiscal Integrity"; 4) "Our Production Plant," for which the President substituted "To Foster a Strong Economy"; 5) "Human Resources," which became "The Response to Human Concerns." McCann checked his outline with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Economic Assistant Gabriel Hauge, and then set out, in a barren cubicle at the U.S. Air Force base in Denver, to write the first draft of the message. The result: a triple-spaced sheaf of typescript that ran to precisely 30 minutes' reading time...
...surpasses Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, or San Francisco as the world's most beautiful seaport. Beneath the Peak stand perhaps the world's most crowded slums, where as many as 40 may live in a space 18 ft. by 14 ft., and along some of the poorer, barren slopes, there are great barnacle collections of kindling-and-paper shacks, where 200,000 squatters live...
They had forced a General Assembly debate on Algeria, but at the price of France's angry walkout from the Assembly-a price too great to pay for the barren pleasure of meddling in, but not easing, an essentially French internal affair...
Having gazed for a decade, however, at a barren tower, outraged and sentimental alumni have finally prodded the Corporation to finance a restoration of the Civil War memorial to the original vision of its architects, Ware and van Brunt...
When Israeli troops drove south across the Negev Desert seven years ago to seize an elevenmile coastline at the head of the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba, Elath was just a name on the edge of the barren red cliffs. Today Elath is a port settlement of 500, with a jetty, barracks, airfield, a prefab town hall, a power plant, botanical garden and stadium. By next year Elath is to house the first of up to 12,000 Israelis, who will smelt and ship 7000 tons of copper a year from the newly reopened King Solomon...