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...CONTRACTOR...
Further south we came upon a row of Israeli Centurion tanks and one muddied Ford station wagon. A bald, roly-poly civilian, incongruously wearing a white shirt and dark trousers, was distributing egg sandwiches and cold drinks. He was a construction contractor from a town near Nazareth, too old to fight in the war. Every day he packed his station wagon with sandwiches and ten-gallon containers of soft drinks and drove to the front. Whenever he found a unit, he stopped and distributed his refreshments...
...basic problem of Roosevelt Towers is that the spirit of its residents has been broken by an environment which they can only perceive as hostile. They are isolated, surrounded by antagonistic people and forces. They find their landlord, the CHA, unresponsive and incompetent. They claim that a contractor hired by CHA to landscape the project had put up dead trees, and that attempts to ascertain the contractor's identity were rebuffed...
...Your American note, "Potluck" [Sept. 17], really annoyed me. The Muscular Dystrophy Association acted as if the "Marijuana Dealers Association's" gift was something less than generous. I suppose the contribution would have been more significant had it come from a local oil company, building contractor or politician-all top-ranking "ethical" members of society. How unfortunate for a society that hails as "ethical" those who weave a "goodie" blanket of All-Americanism around them yet thrive on greed, corruption and deceit...
...knives collected around a Columbia Point school, forcing jittery authorities to close it. As a result, large groups of idle black teenagers were soon wandering the area, and in quick succession they claimed three white victims. Two of them were stabbed and robbed, and Ludivico Barba, 65, a retired contractor who was fishing off rocks at the point in his rubber waders, was stoned by a gang of about 30 youths. They then stabbed him to death and robbed...