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...first taste of competent government. He built new roads, commenced an ambitious project of resettling campesinos from the Altiplano on more fertile farm areas in the eastern lowlands. After his reelection in 1960, Paz expanded his programs until today some 150,000 campesinos have been resettled. New cars clog the streets of the capital, La Paz, and new buildings rise above the old Spanish city...
Chits for Everything. In the clean, graceful former French colonial capital of Pnompenh, women glide silently in their vivid sampots (floor-length sarongs), while pousse-pousses (pedicab taxis) clog the broad, tree-lined avenues. Orange-robed Buddhist monks contemplate under bougainvillaea and tamarind trees, watched by some of the mangiest dogs west of El Paso. From gardens gecko lizards cry "Gecko, gecko, geck-o"-and some consider this the nearest thing to logic one hears in Pnompenh...
What is difficult on the highways is nearly impossible in such cities as Paris. During rush hours, traffic is even slower than it was in the days of horse-drawn carriages. As monstrous jams clog the boulevards and bridges, cars and their drivers overheat, radiators and tempers boil over. The great rectangle of the Place de la Concorde has space for about 1,000 parked cars and 400 moving ones; yet a daily average of 120,000 cars must struggle through...
...rise in Europe with a minimum of traffic tie-ups and almost no noise, in pleasant contrast to the bedlam at most building sites in the U.S. Main reason for the difference is the kind of crane builders use: in the U.S. most of them use "crawler" cranes that clog streets and growl angrily under the strain of hoisting a load; in Europe, construction men have learned over the past decade to employ the self-mounting "tower" crane, which is powered by a quietly humming electric motor instead of a diesel, operates off the street-usually from the center...
Auto carburetors clog, typewriters stick and doors jam; airplanes no longer land at the local airport. Slowly the city's drainage system is plugging up-and so much ash has settled in the Reventado River that a recent rainstorm sent waters spilling over the banks, destroying some 500 homes in the city of Cartago...