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...fail for lack of trying. In vast stretches of virtually unpopulated jungle, he built a string of airstrips, thousands of miles of roads traveled by hundreds of cars and trucks, a private railway to haul freight, a deep-water port, a hospital, a school and a giant service depot stocked with spare parts and equipment. Jari's capital, Monte Dourado (pop. 35,000), is a sprawling community of neat bungalows, town houses and apartments...
...except that their hopes of resettlement are justifiably higher. But in temperament the Vietnamese children seem quite different from the Khmer. Generally they are wilder and more independent, either because of their greater freedom in the camps or because of something characteristic. Argyle 4 used to be a storage depot for Hong Kong's armed forces. Now it looks like a teen-age canteen, the kids loitering under the fluorescent lights like teen-agers in any poor city neighborhood, their self-possession equally dopey and sinister...
...onetime cotton depot, Houston was the nation's fastest-growing major metropolitan area in the past decade. Population is up 70% since 1960, and since 1975 the city has led the nation in residential construction. Space for the sprawl is no problem because miles of prairie scrubland lie in three directions, and towns along the way are simply annexed. Nor does government interfere: Houston has no zoning laws. Dallas, however, is hemmed in by suburbs that resist annexation, and the city's urban planners have carefully guided expansion. Admits Dallas Developer Scovell: "Sure, we were jealous of Houston...
...Europe's defenses are weakened, the Soviet Union would not automatically make any military move. It might not have to. Says a top NATO analyst: "There need not be a Soviet invasion. The Soviets simply won't take Europe seriously. They will use it as a supply depot for technology...
...pretty then and a trucker drove up next to me and said 'You going to the depot? Want a ride sister?' I said 'You betcha, fella' and hopped right in." She is older now; her hair is silver, but she is still pretty. Somehow, it's not hard to imagine the Congresswoman from New Jersey doing the same thing today Illegible...