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...contrast of wealth and poverty so apparent in most Latin American countries is less stark in Puerto Rico. Between the shacks and the skyscrapers lies a buffer zone of crackerbox concrete housing developments with a Volkswagen in every garage. Twenty years of industrial development as a self-governing commonwealth under American rule have created a large middle class whose veneer of prosperity conceals the extensive poverty that afflicts large sectors of the island's population...
...meeting place will often as not be one of some 300 "home headquarters"-private dwellings like the white clapboard crackerbox of University of New Hampshire Professor Glendon Gee in Somersworth (pop. 8,900), where Romney last week whizzed in for a 40-minute foray...
Back in the days of flivvers and flappers, the Ford Tri-Motor transport was the workhorse of U.S. aviation. The "Tin Goose" was shaped like a slightly rhomboid crackerbox, sheathed in corrugated aluminum and equipped with engines slung under each wing and planted on its nose. It flew for every budding U.S. airline, for the Army, the Navy, the Marines. It hauled passengers and freight, landed on wheels, pontoons and skis. Nearly 200 Ford Tri-Motors were built between 1925 and 1932. Astonishingly, some 28 of these chicle, cattle, piping-and people-ferrying air craft are still flying between remote...
Millions of acres of woodland and meadowland were taken to make way for highways, shopping centers and regimented rows of crackerbox housing. The result was in too many cases a voracious sprawl of "slurbs," combining the worst elements of city and country. It is a fact of life that suburban houses are far more comfortable than most inner-city dwellings. But the suburbs have spawned their own problems of burgeoning school populations, transit, highways, hospitals, sewage and water supplies...
...doubt Harvard's choice of Le Corbusier was made with an eye toward the recent activities of its rival in New Haven. Nevertheless his selection has served to recall the prominent place this University has held in the introduction of modern architecture in this country. Maybe the Quincy House crackerbox school is to be supplanted in Cambridge...