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...graveled hill on Main Street, the foundations of the old movie house are overgrown with weeds. Nobody ever builds a house any more. "Every time a house burns down, it's just gone." Said Clair Dunlap, president of the school board: "I can remember when almost everybody hired a man to work the farm. Now you pick corn by machine. The men have to go somewhere else for work." In front of Edwards' store, four teen-agers complained: "Nothing to do here-just a square dance once a month...
...Overgrown Bureaucracy. On a bigger front, New York's tough old trumpet-voiced John Taber (R.) proposed an amendment that sent shivers running up & down the spines of Washington's bureaucracy. Taber proposed that Congress cut 200,000 employees off Government payrolls; reduce travel allowances by 20% for civilians, by 5% for the military; reduce allotments for Government transportation by 10%, for communications by 10%, for printing by 10%, for contractual services (e.g., law work, special expertizing, etc.) by 10%. Taber estimated his amendment would save $600 million. Not to be outdone, Iowa's big Ben Jensen...
Until a trade agreement was signed last week, trade between India and Pakistan had come to a near-standstill. All of East Pakistan's exports & imports, shut out from India, had to go through Chittagong, an overgrown fishing village with a commercial façade. Determined to transform Chittagong into a major port, the government hired Hans Hansen, a Finnish-born American citizen, who was a stevedore before the war. Hansen has cut unloading time in half, increased wharfage space threefold, and imported barges from the Philippines for offshore loading. His job is a shining, rare example of Point...
...spends his winters, and Cape Cod, where he goes each summer. Familiar things held him most: great buildings honeycombed with lonely rooms, stark streets emptied for the night, railway embankments, movie theaters, brightly lighted lunch rooms, waiting figures at the doors of isolated houses, gas stations on darkening highways, overgrown backyards, and beach cottages squatting haunch to haunch in the chill September wind...
Except for his rages, Joe's most impressive feature is his unpredictable size. At one point, in a tussle with some furious lions the size of overgrown rats, Joe looks about as big as a house. Later, little bigger than a normal gorilla, he blandly climbs into a standard-size moving van. In reality, Joe is a puppet of fur-covered aluminum, probably not more than twelve to 18 inches tall. His minutest movements were photographed frame by frame, like the drawings in an animated cartoon, and synchronized with scenes with live actors...