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Blue Bell Promises. The camp is a group of 36 prefabricated cabins and a dozen large green tents built inside a barricade of dry reeds. Their sole amenity: a withered palm tree transplanted from an oasis 60 miles away. Only a few of the cabins are air-conditioned-and they are reserved for those men who have the hardest work, be they French or Moslem. One of the huts is a bar where the men guzzle fruit juices, mineral water and beer to compensate for sweat (about 2½ gal. per man per day) lost at work. Elaborate meals worthy...
...leadership of his party, losing the second time to George Alexander Drew, who as a powerful premier of Ontario had maintained excellent relations with his party's big-money contributors on Toronto's Bay Street. As starchy George Drew led his party twice to electoral defeat, Diefenbaker built up successively bigger votes for himself...
ROME'S FORUM, today a stupendous relic left from the days when it was the heart of the proud Roman Republic and later a center of empire, was built on a drained swamp area between the Capitoline and Palatine Hills. Sacred to Roman eyes, it served as a marketplace, law center, place of oratory, government and worship, contained the ancient Umbilicus Romae (a brick navel marking the ideal center of the city) and the reputed tomb of Romulus...
Latter-day classicists have summoned up a nostalgic vision of classic Rome as an uncluttered prospect of soaring marble temples, each as immaculate as a white plaster model. The reality of the marketplace was far different. Most of its buildings were built of brick, wood and dingy stone until almost the beginning of the Christian era. The city itself, with a population that surpassed present-day Rome's 1,750,700, squeezed into an even smaller circumference, was a terrifying tangle of pedestrians, soldiers, horses, lurching sedan chairs and carts...
...first had in mind using it as a silk factory to rival Milan, but it later turned into one of the most fashionable addresses in Paris. The square, with its colonnade, is actually a series of joined houses; by royal decree the façades were kept similar. Built of brick and stone, it became a model for Inigo Jones when he came to design Covent Garden, London's first square in the Italian manner...