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...cornet sings out the opening tones of a familiar old hymn. Quickly, other voices surge forth, trombones, saxophones, a beseeching clarinet, trumpets, tubas. The sound of Just a Closer Walk with Thee throbs across the leafy neighborhood of rundown houses, gas stations, union hall, stores and churches. It is late in the year, but the weather is soft. Just above, on the elevated expressway, traffic whips by, but on the ground the slow beat of the music warps the day's rhythm into a doleful sway...
Equally impressive with their leather as they were with their lumber, the squad committed only two errors and turned in some exceptional fielding plays. Shortstop Bernstein caught an MIT baserunner in a superbly executed rundown. Fearless catcher Raney kept the Engineer-baserunners honest with frequent and accurate throws to first, and in left, Holpuch--the starting center on the women's hoop squad--displayed an extraordinary throwing...
...years ago, first among students, then among young professionals, academics and workers seeking housing at any affordable price. In West Berlin, 75,000 people are looking for apartments; only 7,000 are available at inflated prices (up to $600 a month for a dilapidated two-bedroom unit in a rundown neighborhood...
...What is really criminal," says a 24year-old mechanic who lives with his wife and three children in a rundown building in Kreuzberg's Oranienstrasse, "is not that we are breaking the law, which we are, but that shelter is going unused." Another young, illegal Oranienstrasse resident recalls the travail of walking Berlin streets for a year looking for a place to live. Says she: "It was a nightmare. If you came across a place by chance, the owner would demand $5,000 in key money. Who can afford that...
...Silver Triangle in downtown Denver is a 20-square-block collection of parking lots, seedy hotels and aging, rundown stores. But a few months ago, the area started blossoming with bright green and white signs reading: ACQUIRED FOR CLIENTS. KNOWLTON REALTY...