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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disabled, finally got on the pension rolls last month (with no retroactive pay). A businessman who filed a tax refund claim six years ago received the acknowledgment last week; he does not expect the refund for years. People who years ago ran two words together in telegrams find themselves summoned by registered mail, told to fill out forms and wait for hours to pay 3? for the extra word...
...Expert Robert Philippe, recuperating in Alexandria, Va. from an airplane crackup, told how the Army engineers make themselves comfortable in Greenland's icy interior. Instead of fighting polar blizzards on the surface of the icecap, they dodge them by burrowing into the ice, just as many Arctic animals find shelter under the snow...
...planners realize that they cannot go on building low-income projects, which do not carry their part of the tax load, without balancing them with middle-income accommodations, which do. One reason for the flight to the suburbs-with its attrition of city revenues and business-is that families find it easier, once they have a down payment, to pay for a house than for a high-priced city apartment...
...middle-income apartment houses are being built because operators and builders no longer find such structures attractive investments. City land is expensive, and an office building or luxury apartment offers better returns. Today's investor in a middle-income apartment building often clears only 4% after taxes, no more than he could make on a high-grade bond. When a builder does start out to construct a middle-income building, climbing costs of labor and materials often force him to end up charging monthly rentals beyond the reach of the middle-income family-up to $100 a room...
Last summer a U.S. writer named Jack Kerouac went to Paris, was unable to find a room or anyone to talk to. and went home after a week. "Paris." he says, "rejected me." Now he spends a lot of time in his mother's house in Orlando, Fla., painting (on cheap paper, with a mixture of house paint and glue) and writing (sometimes in much the same style). Having learned that the Left Bank ''lost generation" era is no more, he writes about the "beat generation"-and "beat," he says, really stands for "beatific...