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...voicecasts back to the U.S. via telephone relay. There was no evidence of censorship of dispatches from Peking, and China waived its rule requiring that all film be developed and inspected before shipment out of the country. But there was no indication that the journalists had much freedom to roam either. All film and copy were carefully noncontroversial...
...teeming working-class districts, soldiers roam through a black wilderness of ashes and charred bamboo stumps. It is all that remains of the flimsy homes where thousands of families lived," an AP reporter in Dacca said...
...happy result of emptiness aloft is that the airlines, in a new space race, are giving the passenger more room to stretch out and roam around in during flight. At least three lines are offering five-across (instead of six-across) seating on conventional 707 and DC-8 jets. Last week American Airlines started advertising its huge new lounge area with a stand-up bar in the tourist-class compartments of the jumbo...
...hundred black elected officials throughout the country in 1965; there are 1,771 now -and the black electorate has only begun to assert its strength. Local leadership is growing everywhere in conflict over local issues; in the virtually all-black central area of Brooklyn, black citizen security patrols roam at night because residents feel the police are doing a poor job. "We will have order in this community, one way or another," says a local leader...
Elephant Stress. Serengeti's 5,600 square miles and the surrounding 10,000 square miles are home to an estimated 1,500,000 big game animals-as many as roam the rest of Africa combined-but the lush woodland is being turned increasingly into savannah. Neighboring farmers burn off trees to create pasture land, elephants topple trees. It had been believed previously that the elephants felled trees simply for food. Croze argues that the real reason is a destructive urge born of overcrowding. Other scientists believe that, as elephants are driven into the park for refuge, their overall number...