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...most U.S. Protestants, the church of their choice nowadays is seldom more than a few minutes' drive from home. Not so in the wide-open spaces of the Southwest, where the nearest neighbor may be a rancher who lives 25 miles away and a pastor may be farther still. For many rural families, the annual campfire meeting-an institution designed to bring God to the cowboy-may be their only contact with organized religion...
...only solution is to cluster shops together again, the way they traditionally were, and let the shopper get out and walk. Shopping centers with "pedestrian malls" proliferate across the land. But too many urban planners seem to be still thinking of the automobile, laying out their malls with bleak, wide-open spaces that provide neither pleasure for the sauntering eye nor convenience for the foot-weary shopper...
...interacting forces called the Thesis and the Antithesis, culminating at a critical nodal point where one overthrows the other, giving rise to the Synthesis, applying it to the history of social development, and deriving therefrom an essentially revolutionary concept of social change.' The questioner looked at me with wide-open eyes. I added: 'Don't blame me. It is your philosophy, not mine...
...election. Impatient for action and convinced that "the only solution is bullets," he flew to Morocco last October to hatch a rebel lion against the durable Dr. Salazar. Delgado-made 18 futile attempts to sneak into Portugal, finally decided he needed a passport, a readily available item in wide-open Casablanca. The Colombian, French, Italian and U.S. passports offered to him by dealers were too expensive, but somehow he got hold of a Portuguese passport. "I found it on the street," he says with a straight face. While the plotters inside Portugal postponed the uprising from...
...more than 40 years Beaumont, Texas, was known as a wide-open oil town where booze, bookmaking and bordellos flourished. But no longer: last week, in the wake of a sweeping investigation by the Texas legislature, crap games and horse parlors were closed down. The madams and their girls had checked out of their "hotels" and departed for brighter lights. And 43 people were under indictment on vice charges, including several top officials of Beaumont, neighboring Port Arthur and surrounding Jefferson County...