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Booming land prices seriously affect the big housing developers, who must construct more expensive homes to recover the cost of the plot and thus risk losing their mass market. Dallas' Centex Construction Co., the fourth biggest U.S. home builder, had to go 20 miles outside Chicago to find land...
A police-state atmosphere, poor schools, and slanted newspapers isolate Mississippi's populace, both white and Negro, from the rest of the country. There is not even that rivalry between liberal cities and conservative rural areas which promises change in Alabama and Georgia. In fact Jackson, Mississippi, recently fitted out...
After this revolution, about 75,000 Tutsi fled to neighboring Burundi, Uganda, and Tanganyika. The victory of the Parmehutu (Parti d'Emancipation des Hutu) in elections of October, 1961, further weakened the Tutsi's position. The Tutsi king, or Mwami, went into exile. The number of Tutsi refugees in surrounding...
Seeking a Site. In the last decade, commercial traffic through the canal has nearly doubled, from 36 million tons a year to 63.8 million tons in fiscal 1963. The U.S. has widened and deepened the old channels. But the three intricate sets of double locks are still unable to accommodate...
Competition from Celebrities. Imports of Australian beef have doubled in the past two years, and U.S. prices dropped 25% in 1963. More than 10% of the 97 Ibs. of beef eaten by the average American last year was imported, and most of it came from the sprawling ranges of Australia...