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...theater having sunk into the depths of filth and obscenity both in sound and sight, is the church to do likewise? Is there no Christianity left, no morals, no standards, no faith? Now are we back to the heathens and barbarians again? We certainly have crucified Our Lord a second time...
Although about 2,000,000 of Mexico City's 9,000,000 inhabitants live in squalor, one out of every four of them has risen above the crime, noise and filth of street shanties. They occupy, with the city's tacit approval, hovels that they build on the flat roofs of solid buildings. While these penthouse poor prefer the roofs of small, low structures (where limited space holds fewer families and gives greater privacy), they gladly share the tops of taller buildings with each other, humming elevator equipment, water tanks and thickets of TV antennae...
LONG exposure has inured New York City dwellers to daily outrages of high cost and crime, filth and crowding, discourtesy and inconvenience. Increasingly, the traumas of life in Manhattan are becoming more than many major companies are willing to bear. In the past four years, 22 large firms have moved their headquarters out of the city, and at least eleven more have made definite plans to depart (see box). Another two dozen are seriously considering whether or not to leave. Still other companies-including A.T. & T., Borden. Eastern Air Lines,Grolier, Mobil Oil and Uniroyal-have kept their home offices...
...littering the land and the once lovely beaches. Moreover, 80% of Italy's coastal cities have no sewage-treatment facilities. Even Milan, Italy's second largest city, has no such plant. Most wastes-industrial as well as human-are simply dumped into local rivers, which then strew filth into the Adriatic Sea. Flowing southeast from industrial Turin, the River Po alone dirties the Adriatic with effluents equivalent to those of more than 4,000,000 people...
...America's ambassadors and high-level bureaucrats deserve better than that, and they get it, as the French did before them. Native servants, limousines, Swiss boarding schools for their children to compensate for the cultural deprivation of growing up amidst "backwardness, ignorance, and filth." Too bad that Laos-once calculated to be one of the world's two least developed countries-is a pretty poor heap...