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...dancing at the lovely Ritz gardens. Madrid's unskilled workers live on cheap fish, beans, occasional rice, watered wine. The housing situation is desperate. After years of waiting, some young couples are still looking for a chance to sublet a single room in the city's cheapest slum before they can marry. For these people, social life is simple. On Sunday, they walk out to the University City's crusted, sandy slopes, where they lie in the sun and talk and stare at the still unfilled trenches of the Civil...
...other to demand surrender, Somoza sent out his troops. By 3 o'clock in the morning he had Congress in session; Congress declared argüello "mentally incompetent." Then Somoza went up the hill, awoke the President, told him he was through. Somoza had won his cheapest victory...
...material it has drawn from the School, the commission has made its decision and, reportedly, will have its findings in the Corporation's hands in time for a pre-June 5 publication. Once the commission's work is made known only Corporation action will stand between epithets such as "cheapest place to get a Ph D." and a happy solution of the paradoxical dilemma of religion at Harvard...
This sort of thing went on for some six weeks and 50 apartments. The cheapest was offered at $225 and the most expensive at $425-four rooms. Often there was a demand for "key money," say $200, to speed negotiations. We saw only two apartments that had no dirty dishes in the sink. It was not that the maids were lazy. Rio as usual was suffering from a falta d'agua (water shortage). All but two had a bathtub of rusty water with a saucepan nearby for a dipper. Water ran briefly only at morning & night...
...story skyscrapers-most of it in muscular bad taste. But the most characteristic structure in Medellin is a half-finished factory. Some 250 large factories already function in Medellin and the adjacent towns of Itagui, Bello, Envigado and Copacabana, but industrialization goes on. The municipal power system provides the cheapest electricity in South America, and is stepping up the supply with a second huge hydro development. The well-paved streets contrast sharply with Bogota's slovenliness. Illiteracy in Antioquia is relatively...