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...stark contrast is the Tondo slum on Manila's northern waterfront ? a maze of alleys, mud-floored huts, hovels built from packing cases. Some 8,000 pushcarts roll through Tondo in search of trash and scrap paper, the collection of which is the district's principal occupation. Tondo's kids are a combination of the worst in American and Asian street gangs: the "Canto Boys," with their distinctive madre tattoos, would as soon knife a stranger as zip-gun a passing police...
...chief exponent of "dirty downhome" country blues. "The Wolf" rarely stirs his hulking, 6-ft. 3-in., 250-lb. frame from a rickety wooden chair in front of his band; but standing or sitting, he movingly shouts the dilemma of the country man who is restless in the urban maze...
...Ways to Rome. In their battle to keep half a million seats a day filled, U.S. airlines also depend on a bewildering maze of cut-rate fares. An ordinary round-trip first-class seat, from New York to San Francisco costs $321.80, or 6.20 a mile, while the jet coach passenger pays only $290.20, or 5.60 a mile. But a 30-day excursion by jet coach, which requires the traveler to stay over at least one Saturday on the Coast, costs only $217.65, or 4.20 a mile...
...increasing infiltration from the North-"the foundation" of Hanoi's aggression. The Communists have feverishly built and camouflaged new roads to the South, imported an estimated 15,000 trucks from their allies, and made increasing use of motorized barges to haul war materiel down the country's maze of inland waterways...
Outfielders squint after flyballs among the maze of overhead girders. The Scoreboard's video screen, all 1,800 electronic sq. ft. of it, is a study in psychological warfare. When an opposing pitcher is lifted, the screen shows a sad little character immersed by the rising water in the shower stall. During rows with the umps, the sign razzes: OH MY, NO! "I'm waiting for a big box filled with cherry bombs, firecrackers-the works," snarls Chicago Cubs Manager Leo Durocher. "It's the answer to all that stuff they pull in the Astrodome. Houston...