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...fertile Nile, cradle of a once-great civilization, is today one of the world's great slums. Desert covers 96% of Egypt, leaving less than six million acres of arable land, clinging in a narrow green strip to the winding Nile. There live 12 million hapless people, in the most densely populated rural area in the world. The wealthy one-tenth of one percent of Egypt's landowners hold almost 60% of the land. The army proposes to break up all estates of more than 200 acres, sell the surplus acreage to fellaheens with less than two acres...
...Korean war has been going on for two years (as of June 25), the truce talks for a year (as of July 10). The war has pinned down the flower of the U.S. fighting forces and is costing $5 billion a year. Only one-tenth of a nation (the fighting men, their families and friends) pay much attention...
...cost-of-living edged up almost to its all-time peak of last January. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' index for May (189) was only one-tenth of 1% below the record. Its climb of .2% since April meant a 2? per hour automatic wage rise for 1,300,000 railroad workers, and may soon mean another raise for over 1,000,000 auto workers whose contracts are tied to a different period. Moreover, no matter how the steel strike is settled it will mean 1) higher wages, 2) higher prices for steel and products containing steel all down...
...with most of its main plant destroyed and a ban on plane-making, Piaggio started building scooters patterned after the collapsible motor scooters used by U.S. and German paratroopers. Only 65 in. long and weighing 185 lbs., the Vespa had a 4½ horsepower engine in the rear one-tenth the size of those in standard American motorcycles. Yet it did 43 m.p.h. (a souped-up model has been timed at 125 m.p.h.). The Vespa caught on at once...
...spring semester they have taught a total of 690 students, roughly one-tenth of the student body. Commented an S.U.I. undergraduate : "Around here we think it's a helluva good idea...