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After a wait of an hour, I had walked out of three circus tents in Arlington National Cemetery with Tinsley's name written on a piece of white cardboard which was strung around my neck. The two of us were taking a four-and-half-mile walk through Washington in the cold, the rain, and the dark...
Every week thousands more arrive, aboard the "Train of Hope" from Italy's blighted south, aboard jampacked boats out of Dakar and other West African ports, aboard buses from Spain and Portugal, and even on foot, carrying their belongings in a kerchief or a cardboard suitcase. One day, their quest for affluence in the cold and often inhospitable north may be looked upon as one of the great social movements of the 1960s and '70s. Already, they have given Europe a "northward tilt" comparable to the westward tilt that the U.S. has experienced since World...
...cities of Latin America are littered with cardboard and packing-crate shantytowns that house hordes of landless peasants in search of jobs. Usually such squatters' settlements are either deliberately overlooked by officialdom or broken up by police within a few days. In the Chilean capital of Santiago, however, a luxuriantly mustached leftist named Victor Toro, 28, has founded a poblacion callampa ("mushroom town") that the government cannot ignore and the police cannot destroy...
...group of students blocked Wilson at the basement entrance, another larger group, many of whom wore cardboard masks, obstructed Donald G. Anderson, a committee member, and Williamson at the front entrance. "Push 'em back, push 'em back, away back," the students chanted...
...Made Environment bristles with challenge. Many of its pages are lightweight cardboard punch-outs, which can be folded to make beams, roofs, and whole buildings. One of the first lessons asks students to punch out six geometric shapes and arrange them in a pleasing design within a rectangular frame. When the students turn over the shapes, they find that the pieces represent armchairs, a table, a TV set. The next step is to rearrange the shapes within a room, which entails thinking about how people best communicate...