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...built by the AFL-CIO. The projected rents of these units were well within the budget of the people then living in the area. Plans also called for 21,000 feet of new water mains, 16,000 feet of new sewer lines, 3,000,000 square feet of pavement and sidewalks, and two new playgrounds. At its completion, the project was to displace 337 families (15% of the Donnelly population...
...rises through the sidewalk and crumples our knees. We oting to the pavement with hands and foot. Hear...
Into Court. Mayor Allen turned the matter over to the board of aldermen, which voted to erect the barriers. At 7 the following morning, workmen were on Peyton and Harlan roads driving I beams into the pavement. The Negroes of Atlanta, represented by a new All-Citizens Committee composed of most Negro organizations in the city, refused to deal with the city until the barriers come down. Negroes have lost one suit in court to have the barriers torn down, but a further test is pending before superior court in Atlanta. Last week the board of aldermen considered a resolution...
Oilmen have long known why the black mess made by an overflowing well disappears so soon from the smirched ground. Road builders understand equally why blacktop pavement is eaten away from below. The guilty parties in both cases are microorganisms that go for hydrocarbons like kittens lapping spilled cream. Until recently no one made much of the hungry bugs' peculiar tastes blast week Research Director Alfred Champagnat of Société Française des Pétroles, a subsidiary of British Petroleum Co Ltd. announced that he has domesticated the oil eaters and that they are excellent...
...hero is too palpably prolier-than-thou, his case is too obviously rigged. Fortunately, Actor Courtenay is excellent (TIME, Sept. 14). As he plays the hero, his chest is phthisical, his voice is a noise among incessant city noises, his face is as hard and blank as city pavement, his eyes are as dark and empty as broken windows in an abandoned mill...