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When I was fourteen I lived in a converted railway carriage with my mum and stepfather. I earned fourteen bob a week doing a paper round, and I babysat for extra money. If fathers caught me alone in their houses they often tried to kiss...
...repressive military regime of Argentine Dictator Juan Carlos Ongania has fallen on tough times. Last May a police crackdown on students touched off bloody big-city riots. Three weeks ago, railway workers set whole trains afire in response to a mobilization order...
...membership is also high in the so-called "mud trades"-bricklaying, plastering, hod carrying-that white workers increasingly shun. There are few Negro electricians, sheet-metal workers, glaziers, plumbers or pipe fitters. Particularly in the South, there are still several hundred segregated all-Negro locals-in the machinists, carmen, railway clerks, paper mill workers and other unions...
...spoils seemed paltry at best. The French had concentrated their agricultural production in the South; crops in the North were insufficient to feed its population. Industry, indeed, had been established in the North?but the plant was minuscule: a cement factory, a brewery, a few railway-repair shops and an assortment of small machine and textile producers. Ho's major asset was coal, and its continuing abundance has provided North Viet Nam with badly needed foreign exchange. Clearly, intensive efforts were needed in the agricultural sector. Ho's first major program, accordingly, was agrarian reform, and his first mass target...
...pool. Security has been guaranteed by 1,500 ft. of new fencing and several observation posts constructed in the same tile-roofed style as the villa's main buildings. Spotlights have been installed on the bluff to illuminate the ocean at night. Even the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., whose line runs along the base of the cliff, has cooperated to assure the President's relaxation. It has ordered its engineers to slow down and refrain from sounding their whistles when passing Cotton Point...