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...years, a costly federal urban-renewal project and the Lincoln Center to lure private capital back. At a time when the Nixon Administration has declared that for every new demand on the federal Treasury some old claim must be reduced, the chances for a massive infusion of funds seem meager. If that is so, U.S. cities can expect the abandonment problem to increase...
Class Love. Ancient attitudes have kept caste barriers Himalayan in height. So has the fact that, for all the official pronouncements, the government has done little to help. Over the past 15 years, spending on special economic-aid programs for harijans has totaled only $90 million, a meager 1.5% of all development outlays. Of the 115,000 students currently enrolled in Indian universities, only 2,300 are Untouchables. Scores of laws are on the statute books, but enforcing them is something else...
...decline, the Hopis now number 6,000. Isolated for centuries, even their own villages still have no political links with one another. They live on three massive sandstone mesas in the Painted Desert, where pasture land is scarce and only their skillful dry-farming of corn provides a meager diet...
...paucity of parking space is another burden. Expanding the Stadium would wipe out the University's meager lot next to Briggs Cage, and the only other available space is either the banks of the river or the playing grounds of Soldiers Field, neither of which has adequate accessibility for entrance and exit purposes...
...clearing, a ten-foot circle, which provided a focus for the actors' "movement" from scene to scene, was marked on the floor with chalk. The players were costumed in only the barest suggestion of peasant clothing, creating props with pantomime or interpretive embellishment of mundane objects. With these meager facilities, the Caravan players unraveled the most passionately brilliant production that I can remember seeing in the Boston area...