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...independence celebration in Setif clashed with the police and Europeans. Some 5,000 Moslems were killed, and the French began arresting everyone in sight, including Benkhedda and his fellow committee members on the Moslem Students Union. He spent six months in grim Barberousse prison-which the F.L.N. promises to raze and replace with a park in memory of the dead of the revolution...
Urban Renewal. The House bill would spend $2 billion, as against the Senate's $2.5 billion, during the next four years to help cities rebuild blighted areas. Cities would buy up decaying sections, raze the buildings and attract private buyers for the land by selling it at a loss. In turn, the Federal Government would reimburse the cities for their losses. Cities with populations under 50,000 would get back three-fourths of their costs; bigger cities would get back two-thirds...
...days. To help Korea's starving peasants, many of whom have been forced to mortgage their crops at as much as 80% interest, Chang froze all loans bearing interest rates of more than 20% a year. To clear Seoul's slums, bulldozers were sent to raze acres of cardboard and tin shacks. The bewildered inhabitants were ordered to clean up the debris, then were trucked off to a barren new site, where they were bundled into large tents in groups of four and five families. Chang's officers made it a prison offense to possess American cigarettes...
...Rubin, attorney for John H. L. Sullivan '23, strongly attacked the decision of the Boston Redevelopment Authority to raze over 300 homes and stores near the Medical School. The Authority would build a 270-unit apartment house consisting of one-room suites on the site...
BRIGHT RED SKYSCRAPER will be built in midtown Manhattan on site of Carnegie Hall. Real-Estate Man Louis J. Glickman, who bought Carnegie Hall for $5,000,000, will raze famed music center, start construction in 1959 of $22 million 44-story office tower to be faced with red-porcelain-covered steel panels...