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...junk. Like most other favelas, it has no piped water supply; favelados lug pump water up the hill by the bucketful. A hair-curling stench rises from the shallow ditches that serve the settlement as sewers. "We have a great time watching these human anthills," said an apartment dweller recently, "but they watch us too. Sometimes we wonder what they're thinking." In his voice was an undertone of fear...
Small Decisions & Deep Breaths. For the city dweller, the fall was a time of fresh resolution. Vacation was over, the children were launched on a new term, the work year stretched ahead. Men took deep breaths and set their jaws; women made their small decisions on the family budget. The decisions were easier this year. During the year, U.S. families had nearly doubled their savings, and the price climb was expected to slow down. Early mornings and even Sundays were loud with the sound of carpenters' hammers as builders rushed new apartments to completion in the good weather. Personal...
This is the third lecture in Radcliffe's series on "Courtship and Marriage." Men are admitted only if escorted by a 'Cliffe-dweller...
...defense? Last week the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense issued a 456-page volume, The Effects of Atomic Weapons* which gives the first official answers to some of these questions. In it are the ABCs of atomic disaster which every civil-defense planner-and every dweller in a target area-should know: what an atomic attack would mean, and what to do about...
Actually the average good farmer was still riding the crest of the most prosperous wave in farming history. His farmhouse was fresh-painted and stocked with all the comforts a city dweller could ask, his home freezer overflowed with the best to eat, he owned one or two cars, his barn now held a collection of the best and most valuable farm machinery in the world. His mortgage was paid up or well on the way to amortization, his children could look ahead to four years in a good college...