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...unreported. Each year it has 600 TB deaths, many among back-country folk who did not know they had the disease. But even if their cases had been detected, they would have been little better off: for TB patients, the state has only 720 beds (some of them in tumbledown shacks dating from 1924). By the most conservative standard, it needs at least 1,000 more beds. Negroes, with less resistance to the disease, need hospitalization more urgently than whites, but a Birmingham Negro may wait a year for a segregated bed as against six weeks for a white...
...life and wealth of the Gold Coast is in the teeming South, especially in Accra (pop. 150,000). The streets of Accra look as if half the professional junkmen in the world had set up business there. On the crowded verandas of tumbledown houses, barefoot boys work at sewing machines. The "shops" are mostly tables ranged along the sidewalks, and heaped high with kerosene lamps, loaves of bread, shoes, shirts and suitcases, earrings and patent medicines (a favorite is "brain pills"). There is no color bar in the Gold Coast: its 4,000 Britons (mostly civil servants) dance and drink...
Rich & Poor Alike. Today the tumbledown farmhouse has grown into a group of Georgian buildings clustered about a handsome Norman chapel. The original $300 investment has grown to more than $2,000,000. Instead of 18 boys, there are now 315. But the sons of rich & poor still share alike in the chores, while their parents work out with the school just how much tuition they can afford...
...appointed vicar of Saône (pop. 700), near the Swiss border. The church was tumbledown, the few parishioners indifferent. Father Simon decided that the trouble with the parish was that the villagers were unhappy. "The more happiness there is in the souls of men, the more love there is for God in their hearts," said Father Simon. He made friends with the Communist mayor and the Communist schoolteacher. He organized games and singing lessons for the children. He arranged with manufacturers in nearby Besançon for piecework to keep his housewives occupied and increase their income...
Then, last April, Alberta's great oil bonanza dumped a derrick on Bill Mulligan's 320 acres smack behind the tumbledown Mulligan shack. Unlike 99% of Alberta's farmers, Paw Mulligan held mineral rights to his land.* By last week his windfall had reached $40,000 or $50,000-he hadn't bothered to figure it out exactly. Besides, most of it had already been spent on a whale of a good time...