Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Voracious Ants. Investigators would certainly find South Viet Nam's prisons overcrowded: 32,000 inmates, more than half classified as Communists, are confined in 37 provincial and four national prisons, which certainly need both reforms and improved facilities. They are not likely to conclude, however, that the tiger cages...
Because these new miracle grains require relatively costly investments in seeds, irrigation, fertilizers and insecticides, large landholders may force increasing numbers of small farmers and peasants off the land and into the already overcrowded cities. The prospect, says British Economist Barbara Ward, is of "a tidal wave, a Hurricane Camille...
With that many Americans in the suburbs, the myth has shattered in diversity. Suburbia is something more than the stereotype of buttoned-down Wasp commuters and wives who slurp "tee many martoonis" at the country club. "Gary is as much a suburb of Chicago as Evanston," says Political Analyst Richard...
At week's end, convoys bearing the symbol of the International Red Cross escorted foreigners to the Amman airport to be flown to Beirut and Athens aboard airliners sent by the U.S. and West German governments. Relief workers added up the casualties in three days of civil war. The...
Yet Europe, like the U.S., is in the throes of a "second industrial revolution" that has led to an increasingly technological and depersonalized society. Students have balked at the overcrowded, understaffed, bureaucratic quality of university life. For a time they were joined in France by blue-collar workers seeking higher...