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About the only things on Saipan as intractable as tangantangan are some of the symbols of modern U.S. civilization. Large supermarkets offer a wide variety of frozen goods. Many homes are air conditioned; so are most of the cars that whiz at alarming rates along the asphalt roads. Cinder block typhoon houses are neatly arranged, as is the golf course, which could be in the U.S. were it not for the crudely lettered sign outside the clubhouse door reading DO NOT GET ON THIS ROOF...
American Samoa's rural villages are clean and dotted with palm-frond fales (houses), instead of the jumble of cinder block and clapboard houses commonly found in Micronesia. The magnificent Pago Pago harbor that initially attracted the U.S. Navy in 1900 is no longer pristine, but two busy canneries make the trade-off acceptable...
...trend, since it could discourage some real talents who don't have Olivia's gasping voice or beautiful face. But if you don't have anything on your walls, buy this album, throw away the record and tastefully decorate your room with Olivia. She's much better than gray cinder blocks...
...black townships of Highfield and Harare outside Salisbury, the tin-roofed, cement-floored cinder-block houses are packed six to the acre. Blacks are not allowed to own their own homes. Instead, they must rent them from the Salisbury city council. Only the main streets are paved and lighted, although most homes now have electricity and running water. The schools are segregated and definitely unequal. The government spent $56 per black pupil last year, $494 for every white pupil. "We don't want to drive the Europeans out," says a black bricklayer who lives with nine relatives...
...afternoon wasn't totally relaxed, however. In the fourth inning, Gary Carter, playing left field for the Expos, chased a fly ball back to the warning track. The ball hit his glove and then he hit the wall, made of cinder blocks deceptively painted green. Immediately, the entire Expos squad dashed into left field and the chatter on the bullpen bench ceased, monentarily...