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...style railroad, the Micheline, which looks out on ruined citadels, deserted villages and scarred forests. Once rich in timber (pine, chestnut, cork trees), Corsica has been hard-hit by forest fires. Population has drained from 300,000 in the 1870s to 170,000 today. Ajaccio, the capital, is a cluster of quaint but quaking buildings, though a scattering of new apartments is rising beyond the old perimeter...
...play was repeated each school day last week outside Crawfordville, a dismal cluster of 20 stores and 786 inhabitants that clings doggedly to its one fading claim to fame: it was the home of Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-83), Vice President of the Confederacy. Naturally the town has a school named after Stephens, and though nearly all other Georgia schools are now integrated, its classrooms remain Stephens-white. Last summer, presumably to qualify for sorely needed federal funds, county officials assured Washington that they stood ready to open Stephens to Negroes. Thereupon, white parents transferred their children in droves...
...surprise, but the village was otherwise deserted. Luckily for the mercenaries, the Simbas had been called elsewhere. Down the road, the chatter of a Russian banana gun joined the machine guns firing at the beach. The commando lieutenant sent a patrol to silence it, then set fire to a cluster of thatched huts as a signal to Hoare to send more men. The huts exploded: the rebels had hidden grenades and ammunition under their roofs...
...town creeps up on you, and is there before you realize it. First, are a few whitewashed, immaculately clean frame houses on either side of the road. Then there is a cluster of businesses with a sidewalk elevated above the street and shaded by the stores' wide porches...
...Government study by psychiatrists found that many of the poor are "rigid, suspicious, have a fatalistic outlook. They do not plan ahead. They are prone to depression, futility, lack of friendliness and trust in others." In the burned-out mining towns of Appalachia, ninth-generation Anglo-Saxon American men cluster around TV sets that blare from the grim, grimy tar-paper shacks. "They're not much interested in what's on the screen," says John D. Rockefeller IV, a 28-year-old poverty worker in West Virginia, "but it gives them something to watch and pass the long...