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...worldwide speculation about the future of Gaza, the Israelis seemed to have no doubt at all. Eighteen Israeli government agencies have just started work on an ambitious program to raise the standard of living to that of surrounding Israeli farm settlements. Israeli engineers are busy paving dusty streets, repairing broken-down harbor jetties, and surveying the ancient towns of Khan Yunis, Rafa and Deir el Balah for their first municipal water, electricity and drainage systems. Trains are hauling in supplies from Tel Aviv 40 miles away; mail is arriving marked "Gaza via Israel." Work is expected to start soon...
...Long Stay Cut Short--and, for Williams at least, is a second-rate work. The story concerns itself with Baby Doll, a delicious but nearly brainless child of twenty, who is legally though not in fact the wife of Archie Lee Meighan, a middle-aged owner of a broken-down cotton gin. Goaded beyond endurance by his wife's refusal to consumate the marriage, Mieghan takes his revenge on the world by burning down the Syndicate-owned gin which has put him out of business. At that point, the competition, in the form of Silva Vacarro, the Sicilian manager...
...wobbly depositors. Rose resigned, saying he had done it all for Ellenville. One of the doubtful ac counts was a nearby hotel named Zeiger's, the other, the Anjopa Paper Co., in neighboring Napanoch, headed by Joseph Di Candia. Rose had poured thousands of dollars into the old broken-down paper mill, handled all its finances personally, rebuilt it into an apparently profitable concern. Once when Di Candia was picked up in Ellenville on a charge of passing bad checks in York, Pa., Rose even helped make the checks good in the settlement that got Di Candia...
Grouped according to their positions, the bone-tired players take turns sprinting 50 yds. up the field. Half a dozen times they drive themselves along, blowing like broken-down wrestlers. "Dig it, dig it, dig it!" Duffy shouts at them. Then, as if they have not had enough. the players troop over to the stadium for one final exercise. In stocking feet, they make three running trips up the concrete stairs to the top of the great oval...
...completed only one major hospital since World War II, and has a majority of hospitals over 50 years old, lags far behind Western Europe in facilities for the sick, Liverpool Surgeon James Bagot Oldham complained in a letter to the London Times. Said a colleague: "Our hospitals are like broken-down, back-street pubs compared with modern luxury hotels. The beer is just as good, but that's all you can say in their favor...