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...sides of trains rolling into the city's Central Station. Like members of some giant caravan at rest, they camped all over Cairo. They watched the comings and goings at the Kubbeh Republican Palace, where dignitaries made solemn calls. They wept at the new Nasr Mosque in the suburb of Manshiet al Bakri, where laborers silently dug a five-foot crypt...
...largest of the troubled Missouri districts is Hazelwood, a working-class suburb of spreading subdivisions and apartment projects. In 15 years, Hazelwood's school enrollment has grown from 1,000 to nearly 25,000. At the same time, tax revenue from industrial and commercial property has fallen from one-fourth of the school budget to 7%. When Hazelwood voters began protesting higher property taxes in earnest last year, it took four elections to pass a school-tax levy. After four more elections in 1970, the voters have still not approved a levy...
...counted American flag decals. And that's no small task in a New York suburb. A car is only half a car unless it has a flag on one of the windows, and for the car to have real prestige, two or three decals are necessary. With Readers' Digest headquarters five miles away, this is easily accomplished...
Even as Nasser Iay dying in a Cairo suburb, the cease-fire between Jordan and Arab guerrillas he had worked out at a Sunday summit conference of Arab leaders appeared near collapse. The more radical guerrilla factions broadcast criticism of the agreement, which had been worked out with moderate guerrilla Yasir Arafat. Without Nasser's prestige behind it, the peace is even more tenuous...
Last week that fear was assuaged by Dr. Jorge A. Veronelli of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Writing in the A.M.A. Journal, Pediatrician Veronelli reported on a study of 1,686 children and their mothers in a Cleveland suburb, which shows that vaccinating children during a mother's pregnancy is "extremely unlikely to be hazardous to the unborn offspring...