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...permanently rented to the strangers; housing conditions are so overcrowded that often as many as 15 pieds-noirs live in the same small apartment. Midtown Marseille has become one huge traffic jam as 800 pied-noir cars arrive from Algeria daily; and the newcomers have an irksome habit of breaking the city's antinoise ordinance by honking the five notes Al-gér-ie Fran-çaise on their car horns. Many angry parents have discovered that the hordes of children from Algeria enrolled in Marseille schools next fall have left no room for their own kids...
...University of Pittsburgh has worked 16 hours a day to keep tough kids from becoming drug addicts and alcoholics. A volunteer for the Young Life Campaign, Bob Long, 21, can proudly look back on such experiences as the 14 nighs he spent helping one addict to kick the habit. "My man here stayed with me," says Long's grateful protege. "He's my 205-pound guardian angel...
...career of wit and irony. He shocked his fellow politicians by his love of paradox, his itch to ridicule everything, including himself. "The stomach is the seat of health, strength, thought and life," he said, alluding to his fondness for food and drink. "If you have a bad habit, the best way to get out of it is to take your fill...
...literature--ought to send him scurrying back to the old drawing board to plan a little re-tooling. The dullness of so many of these essays suggests, among other things, that any English department which shares Brower's concern for giving undergraduates what he calls the "life-time reading habit" (and what more important task can any English department have?), ought to think twice about relying on graduate students...
...things. Their thin wood-frame houses which cover two unpaved streets near the center of town are cracked and peeling. One wonders (as, most likely, people have wondered for the past 30 years) just how much longer these houses can last. Many of these Negroes could afford better, but habit and the relatively low rents set by their colored landlords have kept them immobile...