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...cacophonous with hard-pressed auto horns. In Imbaba, on the west bank of the Nile, camels streaked with henna still plod unknowingly toward the slaughterhouse, and gully-gully men delight bright-eyed, brown-faced children with magic tricks as they did their grandfathers 50 years ago. Imbaba's junk market is still unchanged, and bent nails and half-shoelaces are traded with solemnity and diligence. The red flowerpot of the tarboosh has all but vanished from Cairenes' heads, and Nasser has even made considerable progress in his campaign to get his city folk to switch to European clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Camel Driver | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

Last spring, after venomous and frenzied preliminaries unusual even for Cambridge, the City rejected, five to four, $5,500,000 of federal assistance to renew Donnelly Field in East Cambridge. Chief features of the 114 acre area are three auto junk yards and an abandoned school...

Author: By Grant M. Ujifusa, | Title: Urban Renewal | 3/6/1963 | See Source »

...visual bravura of The Trial. Much of the film was shot on one of the most spectacular sets a camera ever saw: the abandoned Gare d'Orsay in Paris. Once the great terminal was a cast-iron cathedral of transport. Now it is a colossal hunk of Victorian junk, a sagging cavern, dim and vast, that dribbles dainty stalactites of iron filigree: a world like Kafka's world, a dead world waiting for the wrecker's ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Toils of the Law | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

Crane also said that within the next month the Council will consider a "revised Donnelly Field project which would try to beef up the neighborhood as far as neighborhood approval would permit." The new plan would initially focus on the Wellington School and the junk yard in the Donnelly area, both of which Crane termed "eyesores...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: City May Review Donnelly Project | 2/21/1963 | See Source »

...Mexican growers, using cheap labor, invaded the U.S. winter tomato market, and Niland's prosperity collapsed. Since 1956 the number of tomato growers in the area has plunged from 300 to 28. Cars, trucks and farm equipment were abandoned by their owners, are now rusting into worthless junk. One of Niland's remaining tomato farmers recalls that during the peak of the season he used to put $20,000 a week into the bank. Now, even the bank is closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communities: The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

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