Word: riches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, by Giorgio Bassani. The author was responsible for the posthumous publication of Lampedusa's The Leopard, and he has learned much from the master. Bassani's gracefully written novel depicts the elegant, decadent world of a rich Jewish family and its confrontation with Fascism...
...Many secretly or openly think that "violence is valuable" because "now people care about Watts." "I'm as full of hate as a rattlesnake is of poison," hisses a Negro in Montgomery. "There's people walking around mad all over here," an unemployed Memphis janitor says. A rich Harlem lawyer finds it reasonable that "anybody could get caught up in rioting like that." The Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., one of Detroit's most militant Negro leaders, reports that Negroes there "had a tremendous sense of sympathy and identity." Across the U.S., more moderate Negroes, rejecting such...
...well aware that Sarawak lacks the resources to support itself if independent, said Rahman's visit should "do a great deal to dispel whatever anxieties our people may feel." As the Tunku flew on to Sabah to give it a similar reassurance, his trip was given an oil-rich lining by reports that the tiny but well-heeled sultanate of Brunei, which had refused to join the federation in 1963, was now reconsidering its decision...
...Port-au-Prince capital of Cap-Haïtien, is now in ruins, pot-holed with foot-deep craters that all but disembowel any cars and trucks that travel it. Construction on the $40 million Artibonite Valley irrigation project has stopped, and 30-ft.-high cacti choke the rich sisal fields outside Port-au-Prince. Bankruptcies are rising sharply in the capital, and in the countryside starving peasant mothers beg visitors to buy their babies for two gourdes, or 400 U.S., in hopes that the infants will survive. The country's once flourishing tourist trade has dwindled from...
Seawall in the Street. North of the seaport of Valparaiso, two hills suddenly collapsed into mud, trapping a 700-passenger train between them. At Vina del Mar, seaside playground of rich Chileans, boiling waves hurled huge boulders from the seawall into the streets. Farther south near Valdivia, the naval ocean-going tug Janequeo was dashed against rocks and sank; 43 of 72 crewmen died...