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...Nigeria, Curle points out, theree quarters of a million students left school last year to fill 140,000 new jobs. The rest are dry tinder, milling in the country's bloated cities. As Curle sees it, the summer sparks in U.S. ghettoes and what he refers to as the "incredible volume of violence in the underdeveloped world" are only hints of the cataclysm brewing in slums and vilages around the globe...
Heavy spring rains had made the area lush with foliage, then a hot, rainless summer had turned the greenery to tinder. Arsonists and accidents provided the torch...
More to the point, these same administrators should have realized the tinder-box situation inherent in the continually exacerbated state of police-Negro relations. They could have forced labor unions working on municipal projects to ineegrate...
...full equality." In his desire for "more," the Negro has joined the rest of the crowd. But in his realization that he has a terribly long way to go before he will have as much as most whites -in jobs, in homes and in schooling he has become social tinder, easily kindled...
...hard, from the fragile, cheesecloth-shaded tobacco leaves in the Northeast to the whole cornucopia of California fruits, particularly pears, apples, tomatoes and citrus. In Los Angeles, the rains brought unusually lush vegetation to the hills, posing a serious fire hazard for late summer, when the greenery bakes tinder...