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...Communist elite have their villas. Even on the beach at Durres, Albania's chief seaside resort 25 miles west of the capital, a wall extends across the sand and into the Adriatic to keep an area reserved for the privileged separate from vacationing workers whose families share dingy tin huts on the wrong side of the barrier...
...lives in Papeete and had a touch of filariasis himself, interested Dr. Kessel in a campaign to rid Tahiti of the wormlets. Kessel trained a staff of Tahitian technicians, showed a film that taught natives where the mosquitoes bred-in holes in trees and rocks, in abandoned canoes, in tin cans, rain barrels, gasoline drums and worn-out tires, in coconuts half eaten by rats-and how to destroy the breeding places...
Sheb Wooley: That's My Pa and That's My Ma (M-G-M). Saga songs by one of Nashville's slickest practitioners. Composer (Purple People Eater) Wooley often sounds closer to Tin Pan Alley than to the hills, but his triple-tongued comic turns-Google Eye, Sweet Chile-have their own daffy, off-center charm...
...army must be made attractive enough to attract volunteers," Harvey asserted, " because the modern military service needs skilled and dedicated technicians, not drafted tin soldiers...
...Three. Last week, after six months of quiet negotiation, Borgward was finally sold for $14 million-but not to Detroit. The buyer turned out to be Impulsora Mexicana Automotriz, a consortium recently formed by top Spanish Truckmaker Eduardo Barreiros Rodriguez and a covey of Latin American entrepreneurs, including Bolivian Tin King Antenor Patino and Millionaire Mexico City Lawyer Ernesto Santos Galindo...