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...people's republic was better than the old days. "Obviously it is," said Erno. "Why?" asked Lajos. "Well," said Erno, "in the old days you lived in a cold, dirty flat, ate a few crusts of bread for breakfast, and then shivered on the street waiting for a tram. After a long, hard day you returned to your flat and froze all night...
...doctors' offices suffering from bullous erythema (reddish blisters) on their legs. The doctors wondered: Was it due to chemical burns? To a new skin disease? Dr. John Kinnear, of the Dundee Royal Infirmary, discovered and pondered the fact that all the women had been riding the same tram line. Dr. Kinnear inspected and confirmed a suspicion: bedbugs...
...hold steady until military victories and U.S. aid could brace it. But the housewives feared to look ahead more than a single day. In busy Seymour Street market they shuffled from stall to stall, picking over fish and vegetables and hopelessly asking prices. One squat, broad-faced woman, a tram conductor's wife, finally bought two cracked eggs for her family of five. What if prices went even higher? She answered resignedly, for all of China's badly used plain people: "Chih-hao ch'ihku" (We can only eat bitterness...
Hamtramck (pronounced ham-tram-mick) is a Polish factory community entirely encircled by Detroit and submerged by politics. Hamtramck's manners are Old World; but its morals have produced more political scandals than any city in Michigan. Mayors have become convicts; ex-convicts have become Congressmen. Once Hamtramck boasted a model school system which some optimists thought might save the place...
...Vienna, the tram conductors are cheerful. They are among the few people who know where they are going these days, and they proudly wear the Social-Democratic party flower on their caps-red tin carnations. The trolleys, which are just as red, again rattle through the streets with people hanging like bunches of grapes from the jammed cars. Lilacs and hyacinths are in bloom, white & rose candles stand high and firm in the chestnut trees. You don't have to remember the bodies still buried under the ruins to realize that all the flowers amid Vienna's dead...