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Assignment. A job was the first thought of the immigrants who waited last week in two reception centers in Caracas: Guaratero, a converted five-story hotel, and Sarria, a group of 17 Quonset huts. A curly-haired Pole, 19, announced proudly that he was a tractorista, that he was ready to start work on one of the cooperative farm colonies organized by the Government in the fertile interior to grow corn, potatoes, beans, rice, coffee, tobacco. An Italian with a shy little wife and black-eyed little girl was to go to a privately owned hacienda in Carabobo. Another...
Soon the Caracas centers will be closed; all new immigrants will be taken to a reception center big enough to house 2,500 now building in El Trompillo, near Puerto Cabello, where some are already living in Quonset huts. Puerto Cabello is 130 miles from the lures of the capital. Venezuela wants frontiersmen...
...tourist attraction." When Mormons observe their Utah Centennial next week with parades, dances, music, speeches and religious services, thousands of non-Mormons will crowd the bunting-hung streets. They will stare at the multi-towered Mormon Temple, marvel at the acoustical wonders of that famed and enormous Quonset hut, the Mormon Tabernacle, where the Mormon choir thunders out hymns. But what will most awe them will be the spectacular manifestations of Mormon diligence and industry...
...their children watched. For the Class of '47 was the first big batch of veteran graduates. These were the boys who had been jerked from college years ago, had grown to manhood while they fought a war. Many of them were married. They had been crammed in crowded Quonset huts, auto trailers and jerry-built houses. Government allowances had scarcely covered the expenses of their growing families. For many, college had been a somewhat grim experience which they would long remember, but not with nostalgia...
...most palatial of residences, and no one will deny that Harvardevens Village is pretty far away, but at least there is the satisfaction that no one is going homeless--in fact, at this date the Housing Office has more vacancies than it has applications. Anyone who has noticed the Quonset huts and trailer camps which seem to cluster about most colleges this year can heave a thankful sigh of relief...