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Last week the report was released in La Paz. Most of the fears turned out to have been unnecessary. An impartial U.S.Bolivian Commission of jurists, unionists, industrialists and Government economists found many an example of outrageous exploitation, many a sore spot in the Bolivian economy. But the authors of the report also demonstrated an intelligent awareness that the root causes lay deep in centuries of poverty and inevitably slow development. In its sum, the report was at once an indictment of those who now exploit these conditions, and a challenge to all the Americas to raise the standards of substandard...
...famed "spicetown cribs," the rate of delinquency among young girls had increased 350% in two years. One of every four girl "car hops" at the city's drive-ins was found to be venereally infected. Said a social worker among the professional prostitutes: "The girls are sore as all get-out. They say the young chippies who work for a beer and sandwich are cramping their style...
...Streptococci from unpasteurized milk have caused epidemics of scarlet fever, septic sore throat, dysentery, epidemic ulcer in children, have been involved in infantile paralysis...
...stiff-collar taxes. Like Totem Pole it consists of the sort of talk that might be had, by the hour, from any boozy, bawdy, abundant newspaperman. Such talk is dull in spots, complacently boorish in others, childish in some of its conclusions (Westbrook Pegler, though mentally "the human saddle sore" is as a prose stylist "one of the great writers of our day"). At its worst the book has at least the charm of its dialect: the dialect of the vigorous, honest, somewhat cornfed gentlemen of the press. At its best it is" thick with good eccentrics, good phrases, good...
...fugitive slave in the Stowe parlor; Harriet delivering a big, meant-to-be-timely speech-are poorly contrived, patly inserted. But Actress Hayes, acting with her usual skill, aging with her usual art, creates, if not a great and rounded woman, a bustling housewife who is also sore beset...