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Student Mutual Assistance Program is the tile of the international project sponsored by an affiliation of students from non-communist countries, including NSA. Schuchter described it as a "sort of students point four" in which ideas for organizations are shared through publications and through student "teams" which travel to underdeveloped countries...
...half-million modern Bolivians bring these backward highlanders to the ways of the western world? Amid the faded red-tile roofs of La Paz (pop. 321,000), world's highest capital, rise such steel-and-glass skyscrapers as the 14-story University of San Andres. Shaggy llamas shuffle indolently to the side of the capital's steep, cobbled streets to make way for Fords and Cadillacs. Government officials, demanding emancipation from the tyranny of tin, urge Bolivians to look eastward to the regions where the Andes fall away in giant green gorges called yungas to the Amazonian jungles...
...motorists in most Eastern states, the orange tile roof of a Howard Johnson's restaurant is almost as familiar as a gas pump. The Johnson chain, which got its start near Boston 24 years ago, now stretches along highways from Maine to Florida, has outlets scattered all the way to Wisconsin. This year its 355 "stores" will serve 250 million customers and gross $150 million; they constitute the largest roadside restaurant chain in the world. But Founder Howard Johnson, a husky 54-year-old who spends as much time on the road as his best customers, is not satisfied...
After almost a year in residence in the stucco and red-tile building, now under the guidance of a news director, Hans Spiegel, a graduate of Antioch, and his wife, the Center seems to be articulating the often apathetic University community into taking a large part in its activities, both foreigners and Americans alike...
...Church. Since the war, when its roof was wrecked in the siege of Vienna, they have worked as hard to repair Stefanskirche as their 12th century forefathers did to build it. In six years workmen, including free labor volunteers, contributed 1,500,000 hours to its repair. New tiles to cover the slate roof were bought by public subscription (250,000 tiles at 5 Austrian shillings-about 20?-a tile). The entire job cost the people of Vienna...