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...Island's fast-growing Suffolk County took 1 hr. 15 min. to sweat through 15 miles of bumper-to-bumper traffic between their home and the ocean beachfront of Robert Moses State Park. Du Page County's Morton Arboretum, a popular spot for local outings, is becoming a walled fortress. Managers are erecting a series of 40-ft.-high earth berms to protect the trees and shrubs from the lethal effect of de-icing salt splashed up by heavy traffic on the neighboring tollway. Mark Baldassare, a sociologist at the University of California at Irvine, predicts that by the 21st...
...South African whites head toward their first general election in six years on May 6, Heyns' warning is clear proof that the fortress of apartheid, which looks so monolithic to the outside world, is showing signs of cracks. It is also an indication that the once united Afrikaners, die volk, the white tribe, who number only 3 million of the country's nearly 35 million* inhabitants but grimly assert their claim to political power, stand united no longer...
...Square's United States. The major industry is subway construction, and those who do not labor in the bowels of the earth must chase the total dollars brought in by slumming Harvard Square Yuppies. All this is supervised by the overlords at the Central Square Police Station, an imposing fortress surrounded by an army of black and white cruisers which are used, should the occasion arise, to fill up any empty parking spaces...
...housing options offered by the ancient eight run the gamut from a Columbia-owned apartment near Harlem to the medieval fortress like grey stone dormitories at Princeton...
...Kansas, a fortress of Reaganism, the state legislature seems to be moving leftward as the farm crisis persists. Says Richard Larimore, recently retired administrative assistant to the minority in the state senate: "The pendulum is swinging back and is already approaching the middle. In Kansas, this will probably be the last big legislative year for major economic- development programs because people are figuring out that that means giving money to the wealthy...