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...Pinch. To the camponês, no price is too steep to escape the misery of his own backward land, where full-time jobs are scarce and wage scales a fraction of those in France. Since 1959, nearly 150,000 peasants have emigrated to France-most of them illegally. The majority live in squalor in such growing slum areas as the Melun shantytown on the outskirts of Paris. Faithfully, they send large parts of their paychecks home: last year their remittances added nearly $40 million to Dictator Antonio Salazar's economy...
...tents at the ends of Danang's 10,000-ft. runway to reinforce the inner perimeter defense. Three companies set out for the grassy hills overlooking the base, preceded by Marine engineers with a bulldozer to flatten one of the hilltops for the marines' Hawk missiles. So steep were the ridges on one of the hills that some men had to be positioned there by helicopter...
They start arriving on the steep stone steps at an early hour. In wintertime, the motorcycle jackets and minks, chesterfields and children's snowsuits quilt the entrance. In summer, every shirtsleeve seems to end in an ice cream cone. In any season it is Sunday, and the people wadded up against the doubled Corinthian columns are waiting to get into the most culturally concentrated 20 acres in the U.S.-New York's Metropolitan Museum...
...slalom, Steve Blodgett placed sixth, with a time of 131 seconds, fifteen seconds behind first place runner, Olympian Gordy Eaton of Middlebury. Ned Cabot was next for the Crimson, in seventeenth place. The course was a double run on a steep, bumpy trail...
...splendid," but on the way down through Cibola National Forest, bitter cold, high winds and 15-ft. drifts from a sudden snowstorm turned the nightwalk into a nightmare. It took them nine hours instead of the usual five to negotiate six miles on snowshoes, edging their way down the steep switchback trails sideways like crabs. "We all had spills," said a weary Douglas when the party reached safety. "You learn to walk that canyon with great respect." But just the same, "Mrs. Douglas and I are coming out in the summer...