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Stories and Texts for Nothing provides evidence for both camps. The three short stories and 13 shorter fragments are all of the typical "no" piece of his novels, featuring the nameless "I" character-or noncharacter. In one story, a decrepit figure, whose hat covers a pustule on top of his skull, is expelled from his boardinghouse and wanders until he comes to rest in a cab in a stable. In another story, a tortured soul gradually constructs his own coffin by hammering boards across the top of an abandoned rowboat...
...their search for lower labor costs, many U.S. manufacturers have cast their eyes-and their production lines -as far as Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan. Now they have begun to look closer to home. Almost unnoticed, the dusty, teeming, and often decrepit towns just south of the 2,000-mile U.S.Mexican border are undergoing the quiet beginnings of what one U.S. textile maker says could be "a massive industrial program...
...Bedford-Stuyvesant has one tremendous advantage over Harlem: it does not have the same huge, unsalvagable tenements. There is a vast number of decrepit apartment houses, especially on commercial streets where the ground floor is given over to liquor or grocery stores. But block after block is lined with two and three-family brownstones--housing which was, and in many cases still is, very fine indeed. That's what makes residents and planners sure that rehabilitation programs can work. Enthuses one lawyer who lives in the area, "Man, there are some beautiful homes here...
WHEN Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth was appointed director of University Health Services in 1954, Harvard was not a safe place to get sick. The medical facilities were centered in the decrepit Hygiene Building on Holyoke St., a structure which had been acquired from the Spee Club in 1931 which had partially burned down...
...Boeing's 747 jumbo jet has largely drowned out the hum of a smaller but still important market. Lured by the economy of jet planes and lifted by their earnings from increased traffic, regional airlines around the U.S. have been moving into the jet age, casting off decrepit DC-3s and aging Convairs, which gave them their start. British Aircraft Corp., with its BAC-111, and both Boeing and Douglas have tapped the regional market with small, fast jet airplanes designed for short runs and shorter runways...