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...however, wholly invulnerable. During parachute training he broke a leg. The double fracture healed slowly, and he feared he would be washed out of cosmonaut training. His father, a rural physician, prescribed weight-lifting to rebuild the damaged leg, and eventually it grew strong enough to pass examination...
...this century, in less than 40 years, urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build in our cities as much as all that we have built since the first colonist arrived on these shores. It is as if we had 40 years to rebuild the entire urban U.S." Compounding the burden, he explained, is the present distressed state of U.S. cities: over 5,000,000 run-down or deteriorating homes, pockets of deCay in the heart of most cities, and suburban crawl creeping into the countryside at a rate of 1,000,000 acres...
...regained, the entire central highlands could fall to the Viet Cong, leaving only thin strips of government control through the northern half of the country. To relieve some of the pressure, South Korea last week sent the first 600 troops of a 2,000-man engineer contingent to rebuild bridges in central Viet...
...strangely similar. On his annual CBS-TV interview, Walter Lippmann proposed his solution for attacks on U.S. installations abroad: "I think what we ought to do in a place like Cairo, if they burned down our library, is leave it burned down. Just leave it there. Don't rebuild it, don't clean the street even, and let it stand there as a monument to the thing. I think they'll soon want to clean it up themselves...
...Several weeks later the Committee of Concern was organized by clergy of nine churches; among the founders were Roman Catholic Bishop Richard Gerow of Natchez-Jackson and Rabbi Perry Nussbaum of Jackson's Temple Beth Israel. The committee issued an appeal for whites and Negroes to join in rebuilding the 42 Negro churches bombed and burned in Mississippi. By year's end the committee had collected $50,000, much of it from within the state. Help came in other ways too. A group of students, mostly from Ohio's Oberlin College, arrived to help rebuild the Antioch...