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...interest, Chang froze all loans bearing interest rates of more than 20% a year. To clear Seoul's slums, bulldozers were sent to raze acres of cardboard and tin shacks. The bewildered inhabitants were ordered to clean up the debris, then were trucked off to a barren new site, where they were bundled into large tents in groups of four and five families. Chang's officers made it a prison offense to possess American cigarettes; in so doing, they wiped out a lucrative trade for thousands of otherwise unemployed elderly women and university students...
...Greece, the link with the past is the rupture with the past. The creative act is throttled by a sense of futile competition with the appalling glory of the Golden Age and its poet-playwrights, sculptors and philosophers. Yet the voice of the past is muted in the barren landscape, marble shards and ever pregnant silences. Seferis captures the sense of frustration and modern creative drought in Eliot-accented lines as two friends talk amid the ruins...
...question in his mind: What spot on earth might most desperately need the help of a selfless missionary? As an old China hand (he spent almost a year in a Communist jail in 1950-51), Moffett knew what part of the globe to study. At length he chose the barren, wind-whipped Paeng Yong Islands, South Korea's farthest outpost in the Yellow Sea. lying a hairline south of the 38th parallel and only 7,000 yds. from Communist shore batteries...
...land has a fierce and lonely beauty all its own-windswept plateaus, shifting seas of sand, canyons slashing down through layers of sandstone, and, always on the far horizon, mountains of barren granite. Beneath the ground is a fabulous treasure of coal, oil, sodium, magnesium, potassium, uranium. Coursing through the entire region-from Wyoming to Utah and Colorado, on to Arizona, New Mexico and California-is one of the greatest of U.S. river systems. Starting as a trickle in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River sweeps south and west to absorb such tributaries as the Gunnison River, the Roaring Fork...
...Manhattan's mayoralty election next November, F.D.R.'s only G.O.P. son, Manhattan Brokerage House Executive John Roosevelt neglected to cull the army of possible candidates (of which he is one), instead nominated the Republicans' "best campaigner": Democratic Incumbent Robert Wagner, "because of his utter inefficiency, his barren planning, his total lack of leadership, and the long and sorrowful list of scandals that he has permitted to flower during the seven years he has hibernated at City Hall...