Word: bases
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Urbanization is a worldwide phenomenon, and there is hardly a city from Vienna to Vientiane that is not hard pressed to accommodate swelling populations in orderly fashion. American cities face a special disadvantage, however, for they sprang full-blown from the wilderness; there was no planned base for rational expansion, as there was in Baron Haussmann's Paris or Peter the Great's St. Petersburg. In 1790 the nation's first census showed that 95% of Americans lived on farms or in hamlets...
Essentially the result envisioned is a union of education with an experiential base. The Corps has an involvement with practical action sad a deep commitment to change. The university, while a highly developed system for researching and teaching academic subjects, neglects almost completely its other responsibilities. If does not force its students to grow and change. Unlike the ancient university it is little concerned to think, act, and debate so that society might be reformed and liberated...
...found itself encamped atop a veritable anthill of Viet Cong tunnels, in choking grey dust sometimes two feet deep. Enemy snipers and 60-and 81-mm. mortar crews penned the 4,000 men of the 2nd inside a perimeter only a mile long and 4,000 ft. wide-normally base-camp elbow room for only an 800-man battalion. Passage in and out was safe only by helicopter or 100-vehicle heavy convoy. The Viet Cong had peppered the area with so many mines that almost any casual step could prove fatal; scores did in the first week...
...works projects. To keep Libya steady as well as rich, he has built a well-trained, 7,000-man army, and has quietly warned Egypt's Nasser that in case of aggression he would not hesitate to call for help from the U.S.'s Wheelus Air Force Base near Tripoli and Britain's R.A.F. staging base at El Adem outside Tobruk...
Fine Bindings. He gave up his California home and, although he kept an apartment in Manhattan, Rubinstein has always considered Paris his home base. He maintains a house there, on the Rue Foch, next door to Debussy's old home, as well as a summer place on the Costa del Sol. Still, he rarely gets a chance to stay in one place for long. He has never stopped living well, and indeed, next to his music, he loves traveling best. "If I were not a pianist," he says, "I would be a travel agent." He could also be a professional...