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...Vietnamese- nearly half of the population of the country- now live in concentration camps. Some of the camps are near the major cities, but many are placed around American army bases to absorb the NLF mortar attacks. Saigon now has 2,800,000 people in it, making it the densest city in the world- twice as crowded as Tokyo...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Learning From the Vietnamese | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...Vietnamese-nearly half of the population of the country-now live in concentration camps. Some of the camps are near the major cities, but many are placed around American army bases to absorb the NLF mortar attacks. Saigon now has 2,800,000 people in it, making it the densest city in the world-twice as crowded as Tokyo...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: From the Vietnamese We'll Have to Learn To Create a Society In Which To Live | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...seven million South Vietnamese-nearly half of the population of the country-now live in concentration camps around the major cities. Saigon now has 2,800,000 people in it, making it the densest city in the world, twice as dense as Tokyo...

Author: By Gary Snyder, | Title: Stay in the Streets: Why | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...prides. The mane is wayward and unhatted. The massive head and frame are by Hogarth, the voluminous suit by Khrushchev's tailor. An excess of ergs twitches his head and fingers; the English hair and teeth, the cockney-of-the-walk intonations announce his presence in the densest lobby crush. In the past two years, the New York Times's Clive Barnes has become a public character, the most theatrical and prolific critic since the days of Alexander Woollcott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics: Overachiever | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...shrewd -concern with the plight of developing nations, which must start clearing their underdeveloped land if they are to meet the food needs of their burgeoning populations. Dramatizing the role it can play, Cat recently completed a test project in Costa Rica demonstrating that modern equipment can clear the densest jungle thicket for about $50 an acre; with older methods, the cost can run as high as $500. Beyond immediate clearing jobs, Caterpillar can expect to reap long-range benefits from seeing foreign countries become agriculturally self-sufficient. Explains Blackie: "If they don't have to import wheat, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Agile Cat | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

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