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Because the rural economy is especially unpromising, jobless Peruvians have been migrating to the capital in frightening numbers. A pleasant colonial-style city of 1.5 million inhabitants 20 years ago, Lima has become a nightmarish sprawl of 6.5 million. The city has grown so fast that suburban slum districts housing 500,000 people are not even included on current maps. Almost 40% of the country's 18 million people are now crowded into the capital. Says Senator Manuel Ulloa Ellas, a close adviser to Belaúnde: "For many of these people, there are no jobs, no services...
...evening was so pleasant, and Nancy Reagan's table talk so captivating, that I was somewhat surprised when I realized, while driving back to the airport...
...recall, it was a wintry afternoon, Dec. 11, when Reagan himself called and in his pleasant way said," Al, I'm calling to say that I'd like you to join my team and be my Secretary of State." He went on to say that Allen, as National Security Adviser, would act exclusively as a staff coordinator. "You know my feeling about the Secretary of State," Reagan said. "He would be the spokesman." Then, referring to the predicament that developed when Nixon's old friend and Secretary of State
...Abram Bergson, Professor of Economics, turns 70 years old this spring, reaching what he calls "the pleasant age of retirement." He expects successors to be found in his fields of expertise, which include comparative systems and socialist economics...
...TITLE OF the movie Can She Bake a Cherry Pie comes from an old children's song--"Where have you been Billy Boy, Billy Boy....", a pleasant enough ditty despite its slightly pathetic overtones. And like the song, the movie has problems balancing a charming and entertaining story about an affair between two old New Yorkers with depressing, almost pathetic characterizations and themes...