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...apartment has taken on a new elegance and a new appeal that is a far cry from the cramped, pavement-bound image of its original version. The new apartment offers not only an air space of one's own, without the nuisance of home keeping, but throws in most of the facilities of country living: swimming pools, sauna baths, tennis courts, golf courses, marinas, landscaped acres for postprandial strolling, and playgrounds for the young. And usually closer to town...
...York, traffic lights are useless mechanisms, except when they glance off wet pavement on rainy nights, and spear the darkness with electric colors. Then they are appreciated by artists or other wandering aesthetes. But they have nothing to do with traffic...
BEAR WITH us. With that, work lights burst into brilliant glare, diesel compressors roar into life, air hammers rip into the pavement, and dust begins to rise. Comes the dawn. Trucks rumble up loaded with thick lengths of timber. Racing against the clock, the workmen literally pave the torn-up street with the square logs-just in time to let the morning torrent of traffic flood through. Can Tokyo possibly finish the building job by October? There have been doubters. Workmen are still scrambling all over the swooping, tent-shaped roof of the vast Olympic swimming pool and the upward...
...able to catch five Mexicans shinnying up a skinny 114-ft. pole. One dances while his four companions, tied to ropes wrapped around the pole, drop head first and descend in dizzying, accelerating circles as the ropes unwind, righting themselves just in time to land feet first on the pavement...
...profiteering millionaires!" Outnumbered police opened up with tear gas; the rioters replied with rock barrages, broke through police lines and drove off nine army trucks being used as barricades. The screaming, cursing clashes lasted all day and into the night, left scores of injured littering the wet pavement. Clamping on martial law in the capital, President Park ordered in thousands of army troops. The following day new riots erupted in twelve other cities; in Pusan, students fought the police for hours; in Kwangju, 165 miles south of the capital, 6,000 students sacked the provincial headquarters...