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...refugee camp was viewed with hostility by the stolid Pennsylvania Dutch residents of Lebanon County. Within a month of the refugees' arrival, though, local sentiment changed. Volunteers offered clothing and blankets and took Vietnamese children on tours of the countryside. Eventually 420 refugees settled in the area. Less pleasant was the experience of the 42 refugees who went to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to work in a candy factory. Complaining of bad treatment, 15 or so of them left their jobs; their employer claimed that the Vietnamese expected everything to be given to them without their having to work...
...blue, white and red, and Jack-In-the-Box orange is accepted without any qualms. The only required feature seems to be functionality. A store that can supply "reliable shades and screens" is going to come in handy from time to time, even if it isn't a pleasant place to browse...
...called for. We need to feel a touch of genuine desperation in this slum or of craziness in the behavior of its inhabitants. Some how the Duddy Kravitz ambience has been infused with the spirit of Walton's Mountain, and the result is a bland respectability−safe, pleasant, without reverberation...
...Game (though it was played both literally and physically in the shadow of the Yale Bowl), but it was a pleasant ending to a season marked by both accomplishment and frustration. The victory gave the booters a winning 4-3 Ivy League record and an overall record...
...Broadway," with gruff conviction, upping his chin in the right direction. He's pretty voluble on the whole, though, and assures me that this section of town is worth visiting because there is plenty to do here. He likes it almost as much as the open country. There's pleasant country in Ireland--he has seen it three times...