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...unemployment, disease, crime, drug addiction, poor education, family disintegration-and slums. The middle class, the bulwark of good government in any community, continues as a result to migrate to the suburbs, helping to create the problem of proliferating racial ghettos. Almost every major U.S. city must fight advancing physical decay and increasing squalor, particularly for Negro populations, which within 15 years may outnumber whites in at least half of the North's big cities...
...first class. Actor Redford, as Bubber, plays a born loser engagingly but cannot quite mask the clear-eyed confidence of a boy born lucky. All three finally flee to a flaming auto junkyard where virtually the entire county converges, brandishing torches, cheap whisky and other unmistakable symbols of moral decay...
...that the again shoot in cinemascope and color and that he include Brigitte Bardot. Godard accepted the offer and made Contempt, probably the most important artistic statement of our time, by turning all the devices and conventions of the modern cinema upon themselves in a devastating critique of social decay...
Over the Line. It certainly is. After long years of isolation and decay, Spain is caught up in an industrial revolution that has made it the fastest-growing nation in Europe and is rapidly changing the structure of its society. In the past six years, thousands of new enterprises have created hundreds of thousands of new jobs that have drawn millions of Spaniards from their pueblos to the cities. Foreign investment is coming in. Gross national product has soared 65% since 1960; per-capita income last year passed the mystical $500 dividing line that supposedly separates the "rich" nations from...
...putrefying flesh of a dead animal is as unpleasant to scientists as to anyone else. As a result, relatively little research has been done on the decay processes that can rapidly reduce a dead body to bones and a few hanks of hair. The dearth of carrion data bothered Clemson University Entomologist Jerry Payne so much that his scientific curiosity eventually overcame his distaste. In some revealing experiments with decaying animal carcasses, he reports in Ecology, he clearly demonstrated that insects take the major role in the decomposition of carrion. He also suggests that study of the insects themselves will...