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...social problem is not too many people but too many people in the wrong places. Like the U.S. itself, but more acutely, Britain in 1960 is a victim of "urban sprawl," the planless mushrooming of cities. Says Oxford Economist Colin Clark: "There is an area in central England, an oblong, coffin-shaped area, which includes more and more of our population ... If things go on as they are, we shall soon all be in the coffin...
...Britain that was holding the day back. "Any suggestion which I may put forward," said Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd in a self-effacing welcome to the 70 delegates assembled around his oblong table, "will have but one object in view, the prosperity, good government and unity of Nigeria...
...Post Office set up a nationwide 3? postage in 1848. American Express helped build its freight business by introducing C.O.D. shipments, but the most important American Express invention-and its No. 1 moneymaker-was the traveler's cheque (the company has never modernized the spelling). The oblong blue checks first appeared in 1891, after J. C. Fargo, the company's third president (and younger brother of Co-Founder William Fargo), returned from Europe fuming over the difficulty of cashing letters of credit. Ordered to devise a simpler system, his staff designed a check on which the buyer would...
...final stages for the new-comer who has weathered the Stable and the Downbeat is the Five O' Clock Club, a purple-dark oblong room rebounding with modern jazz compositions. Although depending entirely on the interest a beginner shows in this local appreciation tour it may normally take several months before a college student brought up on two-beat Dixie, begins to feel the real "warmth" of Boston Jazz
...your May 23 issue: it may seem as "modern as ... aircraft" to its architects, but students of archaeology will find it a bit oldfashioned. The general layout recalls Khorsabad, which the Assyrian Sargon dedicated in 706 B.C., and Persepolis, which Darius I founded two centuries later. There also, low, oblong buildings with enclosed courts were grouped in the shadow of an imposing terrace topped by a temple, a throne room and a palace, or, in our parlance, a chapel, an administration building and a social hall...