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Although Salvadoran supporters of Cuba's Fidel Castro were feeding the ferment, Lemus did not have to look beyond his borders for its cause. El Salvador, Latin America's tiniest country, has its second densest population (305 per sq. mi.). The average agricultural wage is 60? a day, and 20,000 are unemployed in the capital alone. As much as any other country in the hemisphere, El Salvador is in need of the social reforms proposed by the U.S. to the inter-American development conference in Bogota a fortnight...
Masters of the Congo Jungle. A camera roaming through densest Africa arrestingly catches the primordial behavior of man and beast...
...Daddy's Big Day Harlem, the densest concentration of Negroes in the world, is a world unto itself, occupying a fifth of Manhattan Island and stealthily creeping south. It is at once a dark and tragic slum, a thriving, neon-trimmed Main Street, a sparkling and earsplitting nightclub. It is the homesick croon of a West Indian immigrant, the glint of a switchblade in a teen-age rumble, the patient prayers of the hardworking faithful, the clink of pennies in a revivalist's plate. Harlem has mothered a strange and varied brood: Bojangles Robinson, tap-dancing down Broadway...
...with about two people for each of 679,360 sq. mi., is at the bottom of the list, and the U.S.S.R., biggest in land area (8,600,000 sq. mi.), has an estimated (1956) population of 200,200,000, or 23 people per sq. mi. Countries with densest populations per sq. mi. (as of 1955): The Netherlands, 858; Belgium, 753; United Kingdom...
Asked by the Air Force to design an extreme high-altitude research vehicle, Aeronutronic rocketeers concluded that if the vehicle could be lifted above the densest part of the stratosphere before it was fired, they could get the advantages of high-speed starting without the disadvantages of drag and heat. They got in touch with General Mills, Inc., which had developed enormous balloons of polyethylene film, asked if the company could design a balloon that could serve as a launching platform. General Mills could...