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Many Sires. Love repressed in one area bursts out in another. Anna swims through day after day in a sea of 70 children-white, Maori, and "the brown-white of the New Race"-who overflow her prefab schoolhouse. There are screams from little brown Ara: "Miss Vottot! Seven he's got a knife! He's cutteen my stomat!" Blossom's nose needs wiping, Matawhero's shirt must be tucked in, Dennis' lost pencil found, Twinnie's tears crooned away, lice plucked from Mere's hair. And more screams: "Miss Popoff, Seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wildly Alive | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Like a trained crew whipping together a prefab, the House and Senate last week were hustling out a bill guaranteed to give the U.S. housing industry just about everything it wants to assure it of its biggest year in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Speedup | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...Mammon puts his best foot forward this week at the Brussels World Fair, he will find his ancient competition on hand-the Roman Catholics in a mammoth pavilion called Civitas Dei (The City of God), and the Protestants in a modest prefab, one-eleventh the size, with no name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Churches at the Fair | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

Carillon & Congresses. On a plot of only 13,500 sq. ft., the Protestant pavilion consists of a prefab circular church that will hold 200 people and a prefab one-story display building. Wide arcs of the church wall are glass, so that the passing crowd will be able to look in upon the worshipers at the two daily services (four on Sundays). "We wanted the public to see what Protestant worship is like," says the Rev. Pieter Fagel of The Netherlands, Evangelical Reformed chairman of the pavilion committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Churches at the Fair | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

Here he promised one of his new prefab schoolhouses, there money for a new road. He inspected a new irrigation dam on the Tarlac River, ordered the engineers to use bull carts as well as dump trucks to haul dirt-it would make work for the poor people in the barrios-and delivered his favorite speech: He didn't care what the politicians said about Ramon Magsaysay. They could call him stupid, uneducated, or whatever. He was interested only in the welfare of the poor people. That's why he spent more time seeing them than studying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Smiles in the Barrios | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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