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...Angeli) is shown as a scarlet woman of Sodom who looks back at the destruction of her home town and is turned to-now if that's a pillar of salt the Venus de Milo is Mother Machree. And the big blast in the last reel is a low-cost holocaust, obviously done in miniature, that practically constitutes an insult to Jehovah...
Nevertheless, Alessandri had some real progress to report in Washington. Over the past two years, he told the OAS, "we achieved a 30% increase over our long-term average of investment, a 300% increase in the rate of construction of low-cost housing, a 100% increase in public spending on health, and a 55% increase in expenditures for education." In two sessions with Kennedy, the Chilean President said that his country needed outside aid to bolster its economy and to continue developing, but he made it clear that Chile intends to help itself as well. Paraphrasing an old Kennedy cadence...
...Many People. All over town, living rooms, bedrooms and baths are being added at a rate to match the office boom. Slum clearance projects have been marching through Harlem and the Lower East Side; low-cost housing has been supplied by organizations along the lines of the cluster of 22-story cooperative apartment houses recently erected west of Eighth Avenue by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. But the middle class has not been served so well by private builders...
...Among them, the brothers are active in some 200 causes, ranging from the Rockefeller Institute for medical research to Colonial Williamsburg. Their generous philanthropies and their Inter national Basic Economy Corp., which underwrites businesslike ventures in developing lands, make it possible for helicopters to spray coffee trees in Brazil, low-cost housing to rise in Chile, astronomers to search the skies from Mount Palomar, textile machinery to hum in the Congo, supermarkets to peddle groceries in Milan, and antiquarians to admire the re-created haunts of Socrates in Athens...
Died. Abraham Levitt, 82, builder, whose mass-production-minded sons William and Alfred broke the building of a house down into 26 assembly-line steps, made their family firm, Levitt & Sons, one of the biggest U.S. home builders, slapping together 40,000 low-cost dwellings in three uniformly antiseptic developments on Long Island, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, introduced the word Levittown to the language; after a long illness; in Manhasset...