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...Ontario lake town of Port Stanley (pop. 1,480). The fish flies swarmed, and the rickety Stork Club Ballroom had just disgorged 800 jazz fans. By 2:25 a.m., all 23 bandsmen had clambered aboard the big silver, red and white bus, followed by Bandleader Stan Kenton carrying a cardboard carton with 30 ham sandwiches. Somebody snapped on the switch of a blue light that signified drinking time, and the bus began to roll...
...time at 1 :45 p.m., 10,000 keyed-up golf fans were strewn around the 6,894-yd. course. Wise ones invested in cardboard periscopes; wiser ones bought two, used Scotch tape to build periscopes on periscopes. All of them, it seemed, were for Palmer, the home-town hero. "Attaboy, Arnie!" cried the fans. "Go get him, Arnie, baby!" Some suggestions were even more pointed: "Needle him, Arnie." "Walk around while he's putting, Arnie...
...pains. They stole tablespoons from the mess hall, removed the metal grills from the air vents in their cell walls, and night after night, between the guards' hourly bed checks, gouged the crumbly plaster and concrete from the vent. During the days, they kept the holes covered with cardboard grills that they had painted to resemble the original metal. They carefully collected the powdered concrete and plaster that they chipped away and each day scattered it during their outdoor exercise period...
...sixth of Hong Kong's 3,250,000 people occupy squatter towns like Diamond Hill, made up of cardboard-walled cubicles and straw-mat lean-tos. More than 80,000 others find homes in tar-paper shacks on tenement rooftops. Some 362,000 refugees have already been housed in the colony's impressive resettlement projects, and construction over the next five years will care for 100,000 more annually. Even the unemployed Chinese refugees in Hong Kong need not starve: there are 86 private and public social service agencies...
...radio," says Paredes. A Peruvian mountain couple, German and Aurelia Ortega, are stuck in El Monton (The Pile), a Lima slum of 5,000 people beside a garbage dump. With 14 relatives, they huddle in a dirt-floored hut-its walls made of flattened tin cans, scrap wood and cardboard cartons. German, 30, earns 25 soles (93?) a day in a pottery plant; the others ragpick or beg for scraps at the back doors of restaurants. Once each day Aurelia brews a thin stew from the choicest tidbits. Says Aurelia, "We are not starving here." Every dictator who ever looted...