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...roads are lined with their rusting skeletons. Birds in the surrounding bush fall silent when they pass, and drivers of lesser vehicles pull over to the side in terror. In all of West Africa there is no more frightening sight than a herd of wide-open mammy wagons, stuffed to the rafters with merchants, housewives, babies, calabashes and live chickens, careening toward the next town at full stampede...
Anderson has a morning exam Saturday and may not be able to get to Rutgers in time for the 100. In that case, he'll go in the 220, a wide-open race in which Horner is defending champion...
Religious controversy was avoided partly because the bill offers only indirect aid to parochial schools and because much of this aid benefits poor children-a feature difficult to attack. But parochial schools were also included in the wide-open Title III, which particularly pleases Catholic educators since it constitutes a sharp thrust toward broadly based general aid. To a great extent, this was made possible by the ecumenical trend in the U.S. today, which has eased religious tensions. (President Kennedy had hobbled himself with a self-imposed difficulty: his determination to do nothing that might be interpreted as pro-Catholic...
...sleazy, wide-open border town of Tijuana attracts hundreds of pleasure-bent college students each spring. One band of California youngsters, 300 strong, had more to show for their Mexican trip this year than hangovers or tourist trinkets. They spent Easter vacations in Tijuana's forlorn slum district, building an X-ray clinic, a food and drug warehouse, a free-milk bar for youngsters and a 16-crib hospital for infants...
...decree was another step in Franco's march away from isolation and tyranny. With the passions of the Civil War now all but dead, with a booming economy and a growing middle class, and with the political currents of the Western world whistling through Spain's wide-open doors, the pace of the march has been quickening...