Word: metropolises
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City planning is not ordinarily grist for international relations, but Jerusalem is not an ordinary city. Shrine of three faiths, symbol of Jewish resurgence, the ancient-modern metropolis of 210,000 Jews and 70,000 Arabs has assumed an increasingly Jewish character since the Jordanian sector was captured during the...
People's Pollock. Probably the best exponent of Italy's low-profile brand of Communism is Bologna's Mayor Renato Zangheri, a party "liberal," economist and intellectual who is regarded as something of a Marxist Medici even by nonCommunists. Since July, when he became the latest Red...
If a single bond unites the oil barons of Houston, it is belief in the manifest destiny of their freewheeling metropolis. Having established Houston as the premier city of the Southwest, local businessmen are engaged in one of their brashest ventures-a multibillion-dollar development program to attract corporations from...
Man in motion in a metropolis may be man at his meanest. In a car he jousts for the right of way. In the subway or on a bus he jostles for a seat. On the sidewalk he just walks where he likes, on others' heels, up their backs...
The last leg of the 50-hour journey runs a straight course toward San Francisco along the rice fields, olive groves and vineyards of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valley. Gradually slowing, the Cal Zephyr chugs under an increasing number of highway bridges and then, at the outskirts of the...