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Strangers in the City is a brilliantly abrasive film that takes moviegoers where many Manhattanites themselves fear to go, into the rat-infested tenement hovels of the bruisingly poor, the lower depths of the richest city on earth. The film piles melodrama too heavily on its plot, but the harsh...
As editor of The American Scholar and Atheneum Publishers, Author Haydn, 54, has earned a reputation for scrupulous taste and sympathetic insight. But as an author, he commits gaucheries and piles up prolixities that as an editor he should have blenched at. Perhaps it is because the book is almost...
Peace returned to Algiers last week. Curfew was moved from 8:30 p.m. to midnight. Some 250,000 Moslems who, in terror of their lives, had stayed home from work for the past two months, now trooped back to their jobs. Buses were running and mailmen made their rounds. Garbage...
Foam from sewerage syndets sometimes piles up five feet high on rivers, and volcanoes of it belch and billow over the aeration tanks of sewage-disposal plants, to be windborne for blocks, blighting vegetation and stinging eyes.
Potato farmers are pulling for the bulls. ("It would be nice to have a bit of a shortage just once," sighed one grower.) But eying the piles of stored potatoes in the barns of Aroostook County, few farmers anticipate a price increase anywhere near that expected by the rampaging bulls...