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...Soot & Soup. The face of Cuba seems to be crumbling like the sea wall along Havana's beautiful Malecon Drive. The gay city is now grey and, for a Latin capital, uncharacteristically quiet. No visitor can fail to note the soot-smudged dinginess of the Habana Riviera and the Habana Libre, once the city's flossiest hotels. Silent knots of Iron Curtain technicians, gun-toting militiamen, and bewildered peasants brought to Havana for Marxist orientation have replaced the thronging tourists who once filled their lobbies. Nightclubs like the Tropicana-still ballyhooed as the world's biggest-continue...
...often resembles something straight out of Dante's Inferno. A snowstorm that could be ignored or scoffed at elsewhere can paralyze a big city for days. Smog often covers Los Angeles, Chicago has its biting wind, and New York is covered by 525 million lbs. of soot each year. The stark anonymity of living in a big city crushes as many as it invigorates. Loneliness is a common malaise, and the bars are full...
...among the 150 fire fighters injured (none of them seriously). Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby came home to find the roof of his much-publicized $30 fallout shelter reduced to coals, stubbornly insisted: "I have more faith than ever in the shelter." Kim Novak, artfully decked out in slacks, soot and no bra, rushed back from her studio during the fire to grab up a garden hose, but was unabashedly just as concerned with soaking up publicity as with soaking down her house. Her $200,000 manse survived unharmed, as did the nearby rented quarters of the Richard M. Nixons...
High in the French Pyrenees, peasants were startled for weeks by two soot-black cars, swathed in tape and disguised by tacked-on boards, streaking under the slim poplars and bouncing up the cruel mountain roads at 100 m.p.h. Last week at London's auto show at Earls Court, the tacky-looking autos showed their true faces. Spinning on twin turntables in peaceful repose were two new Mark X sedans, Jaguar Cars Ltd.'s first newly designed big sedans in ten years. A bustling British maker of luxury sedans and speedy sports cars, Jaguar has become Britain...
...million for new construction), more than the budget of the state of Missouri. The schools employ not only 40,000 teachers but also more administrators than all of France. The system is smothered in a bureaucracy so ponderous that vital problems never reach "Livingston Street," or board headquarters, a soot-stained Brooklyn building that once housed the Elks of the region...