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...Metropole Hotel and the Bank of Alexandria are scarred by bomb blasts. We were escorted into this canal-side city by Egyptian officers. They kicked down the door of the former British officers' club and led us through a billiards room where the stale smell of dust and decay hung over the neatly racked cues and a picture of the late President Nasser. The rules of the game of snooker in fine curlicued print hung on the wall. The balcony opened onto a littered street where electric lines dangled from telephone poles and a dog lay dead...
Rucci's assassination, the strike and the apparent retaliatory assassination a day later of a leftist youth-labor leader were poor omens for the future of Argentina. The country is plagued not only by terrorism but by bitter political factionalism and economic decay. Perón was returned to office by voters who clearly hoped against hope that el Lider, at once a kind of Latin Mao and second Mussolini, might magically solve the country's problems. The task would be difficult enough for a man in his prime, but Perón is 77 and ailing...
...current fad in the U.S. and Canada spins off that theory, by way of France and Czechoslovakia. French researchers discovered 70 years ago that if they put a dead cat inside a small plywood pyramid, the body did not decay but merely dehydrated or was "mummified." Inspired by that work, Czechoslovak Radio Engineer Karel Drbal fashioned his own small pyramid and stored his razor blades in it. In 1959 Drbal took out a patent on the Cheops Pyramid Razor Blade Sharpener...
Fast-rising land prices also aggravate urban decay, suburban sprawl and even the energy shortage. Real estate developers often "leapfrog" over expensive land close to cities to find cheaper sites farther out; on the outskirts of Phoenix, houses are climbing mountainsides. The less expensive houses in those distant areas lure residents and businesses from the city, reducing the urban tax base. Mass transportation is uneconomical in the far suburbs; so their residents become totally dependent on the auto, increasing the strain on the nation's fuel supplies...
Watergate is America's Dreyfus Affair, a symptom of moral decay. During the Ervin hearings, Nixon aide after Nixon aide demonstrated to all the world the distance that has developed between the cause of the president of the United States and the cause of justice...