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...confidence by organizing volleyball or baseball teams, then build a recreation area and later divide the teams into bucket brigades to clean up the barrio. Soon the whole community joins in, digging, hammering and painting, installing sewers, sidewalks, water systems. ACCION workers scrounge around for bricks, pipe and cement, also hold classes in reading and sewing. On major projects they occasionally get an assist from the Venezuelan government and the Alliance for Progress...
...will crush his country completely unless he can make a deal with the most powerful nation in the area-Red China. He may have read André Malraux's The Royal Way, in which one character remarks: "Don't forget that the Khmer temples were built without cement. Like castles made of dominoes...
Yesirree, a fine fire. Beautiful. Wow! There goes another chimney! Careful everyone--stand back. Watch out for the flying balcony! Good thing the new one will be made out of cement blocks and steel girders...
...construction companies are building 1,600 miles of Italy's handsome autostrade, using cement from IRI plants. IRI's Italsider subsidiary is Europe's biggest steelmaker. All this makes it much more diversified than its smaller if better known cousin, the ENI petroleum monopoly...
Bathgate and McKenney have come through in a big way, scoring eleven goals in twelve games to cement third place for the Leafs. Bathgate, fourth-leading scorer in the NHL, has 54 assists, just four short of Beliveau's all-time record...