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Surrounded by prospering suburban developments, the partly completed subdivision 18 miles from downtown Los Angeles had sunk into dreary ruin. Some 275 families lived in Bellehurst, but among their luxurious (up to $55,000) ranch homes stood the vandal-and weather-ravaged remains of another 450 abandoned houses, many only half-built. During eight years of neglect, streets caved in; tumbleweed rolled across once well-kept lawns and against the legs of curious sightseers. Golfers at Bellehurst's Los Coyotes Country Club were forced to climb over rotting piles of lumber and weed-cracked concrete slabs when they tracked...
...riots in the black ghettos seemed certain. The U.S. dollar was being brutally battered by foreign gold speculators. Not least among the factors affecting his decision was the unforeseen strength of Senators Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy in their challenge to his renomination. So low had Johnson's popularity sunk, said one Democratic official, that last-minute surveys before the Wisconsin primary gave him a humiliating 12% of the vote there...
Like a stake driven into the ground by the repeated blows of a sledgehammer, Harold Wilson's reputation has sunk lower and lower with each passing month. In the 13 by-elections since the country as a whole went to the polls in 1966, the Prime Minister's Labor Party had lost six of its constituencies and seen the majority in its three others cut sharply. Last week, in the first by-elections since the introduction of the government's stringent new budget, the sledgehammer fell on Labor with such force that it all but buried what...
...more than 18 months, the 23 groups of international oil companies drilling for natural gas in sandstone off the English coast have been caught between a devil and the deep blue sea. The treacherous North Sea and its gales have sunk two of their big drilling rigs, interrupted operations and increased production costs. The devil, as far as they are concerned, is Britain...
LITTLE warning flags are going up all over. Semaphoric signals of distress. In America the warning signs are being manufactured daily; artifacts which if interpreted correctly tell the whole story: The ship is going down. Not torpedoed, but sunk on purpose by the crazy crew...