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...feudal tribal relationships. The outpouring of Western wealth (at the rate of $200 million a year) is destroying old values before new ones can be substituted. Oil money expanded the middle classes; it educated them, and created a class hostile to economic domination by foreigners. Oil money increased the gap between rich & poor, and gave the poor something to covet...
...Yardlings led at the end of the first period, 5 to 2, but the hard fighting Brown squad bounced back to close the gap early in the second period...
Paced by Bill Dennis, Ed Blodnick, and Bob Gremp, who all scored over 10 points, the Crimson never fell behind in the game. The Terriers were held scoreless for five minutes in the first quarter. They narrowed the gap to two points at the quarter, but fell behind again, 27 to 23, at the half...
Whether the gap is closed or not, the patterns of the new Hawaiian mosaic are not likely to be altered for the worse. The changes that have taken place in the swift decade have as much to do with the heart and spirit as with economics. Struggle ill becomes an island paradise. In a few more years, the worlds of Walter Dillingham, Jack Hall, Hiram Fong and Sakae Takahashi may relax together into the old Hawaiian custom of enjoying living...
...living, already high, has jumped 23% in the past year. Heat and light are up 42%. Last week the Paris Opera raised its prices 17% and Parisian cab fare jumped 20%. Ministers worried whether tourists would come to so expensive a country. The French themselves worried about the spreading gap between wages and prices...