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...Paulo Slum Dweller Carolina Maria de Jesus is against Father's Day; see HEMISPHERE, Life in the Garbage Room...
...what they wanted for some time. They admit quite candidly that they want to pass all the bills the President vetoed during the last eight years, and quite a few more besides. They want to see what the Federal government can do for the unemployed, the Negro, the slum-dweller and the old man (not the "senior citizen"), if it really puts its mind and money to it. The Democrats do not, it appears, regard GOP warnings that this kind of behavior reduces the freedom of the individual with any great seriousness...
...strong are your instincts for survival?" the San Francisco Chronicle asked its readers three weeks ago. "Could you, an average city dweller, exist in the wilderness tomorrow with little more than your bare hands?" Having raised this nuclear-age question, the Chronicle announced that it was dubbing Outdoors Writer Harvey R. Boyd "The Last Man on Earth" and setting his entire family to a six-week survival test...
Bypassed. As frustrating as such attitudes are to U.N. officials-who would like to close down the European camps-the fact is that "permanent" camp dwellers like the Bojarskis have learned cynicism in a hard school. Largely the aged, the infirm or diseased, or those classified as "asocial" -such as unwed mothers or the "politically unreliable"-they have watched one of the great migratory thrusts of modern history refuse them passage. Since 1947, about 1,500,000 European refugees have been resettled around the world, chiefly in the U.S. (470,000) and Australia (240,000), Canada (186,000), Israel...
...What causes Russians most discomfort is housing," according to Bergson. The average city-dweller has a living space of only six square meters. Here, too, however, progress is being made. "On the way to Moscow's Vnukova airport," Bergson reports, "I saw more housing than I've ever seen in my life...