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...village, guerrilla units including armed women practiced weapons drill near thick-walled homes with thatched and orange tile roofs that had been smashed by government forces. The guerrillas had organized patrols of young boys, some under the age often, to act as scouts and runners for their parents. The adults carried a motley array of weaponry, chiefly old carbines and a few automatic rifles...
...gently under a cottony blue sky while a family frolics in the foamy surf. Here is a snowy white heron flitting along a river of sea grass in the Everglades, the mangrove and palmetto serene as a Sunday morning. There is a creamy stucco Palm Beach mansion, its red tile roof glinting fiercely in the sun and bougainvillea rioting, colorfully in the yard. And, of course, a couple of sunburned senior citizens of Miami Beach, he in a Hawaiian shirt and she in purple culottes, waiting their turn on the shuffleboard court...
...wall clocks. In the affluent West, that might appear unremarkable; in China it is a veritable cornucopia of consumerism. Every family in the brigade possesses an alarm clock, 90% of the families have savings accounts. In the past two years 24 households have built solid brick and tile houses to replace their old mud-and-thatch homes, compared with the 28 years before, when only seven such houses were constructed. "All the peasants feel happy," says Chen Quanchun, 37, the brigade's leader. "They work twice as hard as they used to because they know that if they work...
...Heel spirit pervades the UNC campus. It's more than just the tangibles like the insignia apparel that dots the walkways, much more than the Veritas emblems up here in the Yard. It's everywhere--Tar Heel blue telephones, toilets, bathroom tile, awnings, bleachers, bumper stickers, and even the Tar Hell blue walls of the Carmichael Auditorium...
...capacious world of light brick and tile carved underground. Montreal Metro is a marvel of cleanliness - quietness and efficiency. Long-blue-stylish trains glide smoothly on inflated rubber tires over steel rail. If Reagan cared at all for America, they would restore New York's frightful subway...