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...Grandiose station accommodations, in McGinnis' opinion, are a waste of money: "I am sure the commuter could be just as happy if he caught the 5:08 in a tent rather than in the magnificent marble edifice of years gone...
...eight years ago. Only 20% of the 717,997 immigrants who arrived from Europe, North Africa, Yemen and Iraq between 1948 and 1953-at the rate of one every three minutes-still live in temporary accommodations, and the dominant feature of the Israeli landscape is no longer the tent camp of the first years of statehood but the ubiquitous, neat, garage-sized concrete houses-the longed-for "permanent" housing. Along the Jerusalem Road, where village after village of red-roofed one-room houses have been set up, the majority of settlers have built on an extra room at their...
Last week Prefect Dupuch had 80,000 French troops in action in his département. He said he needed 80,000 more. Fully one-third of Algeria north of the Sahara was in a state of siege. Stations, tent camps, truck parks and supply dumps were corseted in barbed wire and surmounted by steel watchtowers. The road to Batna, metropolis of the Aures Mountains, was strewn with sabotaged telegraph poles and bloated dead cattle...
...Kenya, Chief of Foreign Correspondents Manfred Gottfried went with Johannesburg Correspondent Edward Hughes to Nyeri, not long ago the center of Mau Mau activity. Gone were the barricades, gun emplacements, and the black tent where captured terrorists were hanged. After strolling quiet streets, lunching at the famous Outspan Hotel, and watching golfers on velvety fairways at the edge of the bush, Gottfried remarked: "Why, this looks about as wild and woolly as a Connecticut village." Right after he left, a new emergency arose: three giant buffaloes, most vicious of all African game, crashed into Nyeri, killed a woman, injured...
Aside from a slight over-accent on the burlesque, The Matchmaker is a thoroughly enjoyable play. In addition, it furnishes the much-needed proof that a successful comedy need not revolve around an army tent or a bedroom...