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...Mexicans call the "belt of misery" ringing the city. Lima's slums have grown from a handful of miserables to a city-within-a-city of 400,000. Ten years ago, Santiago, Chile, counted 32,000 slum dwellers; today it has 200,000. The swelling shack towns that overlook Caracas' gleaming skyscrapers hold a quarter of a million people. Slums are worst in the capitals, but they grow almost as fast in secondary towns. All told, an estimated 40 million of Latin America's 200 million people are urban slum dwellers...
...opposition which might confront the plan suggested here would spring up in the face of any real initiative. The scientists' commitment to peace, it would inevitably be argued, is stronger than their patriotism, and they might overlook violations in an effort to avoid international incidents. But such fears are profoundly illogical: any war preparations, any surreptitious tests would start anew the arms spiral to which the scientists are so implacably opposed; their opposition to arms production is supranational in the finest sense...
Congratulations to the critic of Victim, who placed the reason for its immorality where it belonged. The public is alerted to fight the diseases that kill individuals, but asked to overlook and even condone an aberration that can rot a whole segment of our society. This is hardly entertainment...
Several buildings will have to be demolished to make way for the $3 to 10 million project. Sert said that many of the new apartments will overlook the river and that the entire complex will be built as far from the Houghton School on Putnam Ave. as possible...
...United States will overlook our mistakes, the Ghana president added, Ghana will forget the indignities heaped upon her in the past. "In the making of American wealth are the sufferings of my ancestors," he explained; "the healthiest slaves were used like stallions for breeding purposes...