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Given the chance, the poor people would fill the vacant apartments in short order. About 85% of Beirut's 500,000 people live in apartments, many of them overcrowded. Near the fetid Beirut River and in rubbish-strewn vacant lots across the city 10,000 refugees live in squalid shacks built from flattened kerosene cans. A 1954 master plan for the city has yet to materialize, largely because of soaring land costs that have sent the price of a plot on the glossy Corniche that measures about 50 ft. by 20 ft. from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: For Rent | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...House's refugee resettlement program, unless Jews can participate, are oblivious both to political necessity and the magnitude of the social problem. In protesting the anti-Judaism of the Jordanian government they refuse to give due consideration to the plight of the refugees from Israel who are cooped in squalid camps along the Israel-Jordan border. Blindly indifferent to the angry and resentful anti-Jewish feeling continuously created by the refugee camps, they refuse to help resettle the refugees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jews, Jordan, and Jarba | 12/11/1961 | See Source »

...writes novels, is no exception. Lewis, says Schorer didactically, "was one of the worst writers in modern American literature." But Lewis possessed to a high degree what most stylists do not-the creator's gift for bringing a character or a book to vigorous (and often noisy, smelly, squalid) life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lonely Cameraman | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...House on Coliseum Street, by Shirley Ann Grau. The emotional breakup of a young girl beset by a sordid family and a squalid love affair is told in the author's effective, soft-focus style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Aug. 11, 1961 | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...House on Coliseum Street, by Shirley Ann Grau. The emotional breakup of a young girl beset by a sordid family and a squalid love affair is told in the author's effective, soft-focus style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Aug. 4, 1961 | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

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