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...miles, Albania lives in an isolation both defiant and pathetic. More than 70% of its 1,700,000 people scratch a living from the collectivized soil; most of Albania's farm villages and mountain towns have changed little in the last century. Garbage flows through an open gutter cut in the middle of narrow streets; hawk-nosed men sip Turkish coffee in dim cafés while their women shoulder heavy loads of wood and barrels of scarce water. Along with the traditional poverty are Communist posters plugging Dictator Enver Hoxha's slogan: "Build socialism with a pickax...
...Cuban Gutter. Of the U.S.'s three missile ranges, Cape Canaveral, Fla., makes the most headlines, with its man-in-space shots. The Army's White Sands is dimly recalled as the site of long-ago atomic tests. But White Sands and Canaveral lack what the PMR has: plenty of room...
Canaveral's Atlantic Missile Range, says a PMR officer, "is like a bowling alley. Castro's Cuba forms a right-hand gutter, and the Atlantic shipping lanes form the left. You've got a tight shot downrange. In the PMR, on the other hand, you have no such proscriptions. The many tiny islands of Oceania serve as tracking and data-collection stations clear across the Pacific. Our range is long, wide and well marked." Foreseeing the day when the missile program would require such roominess, the Department of Defense in 1957 acquired 20,000 acres of canyon...
...house, squeaking and plundering, happy as fiends with a rich man's soul. Out come the linens and the candelabra, the rare wines, the cates and dainties, a whole lamb. Like dukes the poor pilgarlics sit them down to a palatial feast that rapidly degenerates into a gutter brawl. But the brawl is intended also as a rite, as the dissolution of a desiccated society in a Dionysian mystery. In the depths of it, as the rabble bawls and dances, fights and fornicates all over the house, the leper puts a record on the gramophone, and suddenly with supernal...
...role in the Dutch trooplift, and 100 students, right on cue, went into a shopworn routine. Toting bamboo spears, rocks and anti-American posters, they reduced the glass facade of the U.S. embassy to a saw-toothed shambles, smashed eight embassy autos, stamped a U.S. flag into the gutter and injured an American woman. Ambassador Howard Palfrey Jones lodged a formal protest and demanded $5,000 in damages. In return, he got a mild expression of regret and a gratuitous lecture from Foreign Minister Subandrio to the effect that "the anger and the irritation of the Indonesian people" were perfectly...