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...McBee. 28. the town's ecstatic urban renewal director, promptly set about spending the money. McBee has mapped a 75-block area that includes practically all of Wink. In that space, 192 buildings will be torn down, ancient automobiles long rusting on vacant lots will be hauled away, tin shacks thrown up by the vanished oilfield riggers will be demolished. McBee has already bought eleven pieces of property, has options on 92 more. When the land is assembled, it will be sewered, paved, sprinkled with new stores, off-street parking. malls, homes, an industrial park...
...tion, which faces on West Berlin, was bricked up. Apartments fronting on the border have been bricked and boarded up on the first floors, and their tenants relocated. The upper floors still offer an uncertain access to freedom. On the side walk of No. 48 Bernauerstrasse, a wreath and tin can of flowers mark the place where a woman leaped to her death trying to escape. But last week a young student knocked on the door of a second-floor apartment on Luckauerstrasse. When it was opened, he raced through it, leaped safely out the window into West Berlin...
Short years ago, marauding Communists turned placid plantations into armed camps, terrorized the countryside and threatened the emergence of Malaya as a free nation. But with British help, Malaya beat back the Red challenge. And thanks to its rich endowment of rubber and tin, the country's economy prospered. Last year Malaya topped all other nations in the production of both items (709,000 tons of rubber, 50,000 tons of tin), sent enough abroad, mostly to the U.S., to boost its foreign exchange reserves to a healthy $430 million. More than 95% of Malaya's children attend...
...American swing earlier this summer. As the idol of the Method-acting school, Williams automatically had to become the focal point of the repertory. But which plays? Helen Hayes and her Government-sponsored ANTA company were soon to tour Latin America with The Glass Menagerie. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was just "too dirty," and A Streetcar Named Desire called for too large a cast. So the group ended up doing Suddenly, Last Summer and Sweet Bird of Youth, the one a swift history of a young girl whose mind shattered when her cousin was eaten alive by street...
...PACKAGING: While U.S. Steel's new. lighter tin plate put a dent in the aluminum can market, the aluminum men came back with aluminum labels for bottles, aluminum tops for soapboxes, and aluminum-coated cardboard containers for bottles (that are said to keep beer cold twice as long...