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...neighbor said that residents want Harvard to do something with the property -- currently covered with scrub -- but hope that whatever is built will not destroy the appearance of the Shady Hill area...
...woman returning home from the hospital after an operation. When she told Fish that she needed someone to clean her house but couldn't afford to hire help, a parishioner of Good Shepherd, who had a maid to do her own housecleaning, showed up to scrub the floors and wash windows. Fish will undertake any reasonable request: after one tearful teen-ager asked Fish to help explain a poor report card to his father, a sympathetic parent was found to escort the boy home...
...that independence inevitably evokes in black Africa. As Botswana's birthday gifts indicated, Africa's 33rd new nation of the decade faces a combination of problems that bode ill for future success. The former British colony of Bechuanaland is a Texas-size sprawl of sand, rock and scrub-thorn; elephants, buffalo and springbok outnumber the scrawny Tswana cattle on which its 576,000 people depend for a living; in the fifth year of drought, both cattle and men are facing starvation. As if that were not enough, black Botswana (only 4,000 of its inhabitants are white...
Among the scrub pines and lakes of the Manitoba wilderness, where only the cry of the loon could be heard a few years ago, the stillness was shattered by the hissing and hammering of the world's largest nickel mine and smelter. In the Alberta foothills northwest of Edmonton, the ring of sledge hammer on steel counterpointed the polyglot curses of Portuguese, Greek and Italian gandy dancers, pushing the Alberta Resources Railway 111 miles north to the coal and gypsum deposits of the Peace River country...
International Nickel's new town of Thompson is still farther into the wilderness of scrub pines and countless lakes, but shows the new face of the push north. Its curving streets of ranch homes might have been lifted from the split-level suburbia of Cleveland or Chicago and deposited as they are 476 miles north of Winnipeg. On the Nelson River, 579 miles northeast of Winnipeg, construction was started this summer on a $325 million power project, as well as a new $100 million forest industry complex...