Word: overcrowdedness
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For those young Americans who are detouring from the overcrowded highways of Western Europe this summer to investigate the nations of the East, the incident is typical. Few have any liking for Soviet-style Communism. But generally they are left of center in their politics and critical of American values...
Despite the swift pace of revival, misery has by no means been banished from the East Central State. Hospitals are short-staffed and overcrowded. Some roads ripped up to slow Nigerian armored cars have not been repaired. Ex-soldiers, known as "vacuum cleaners" because they are so thorough, roam the...
Voracious Ants. Investigators would certainly find South Viet Nam's prisons overcrowded: 32,000 inmates, more than half classified as Communists, are confined in 37 provincial and four national prisons, which certainly need both reforms and improved facilities. They are not likely to conclude, however, that the tiger cages...
Because these new miracle grains require relatively costly investments in seeds, irrigation, fertilizers and insecticides, large landholders may force increasing numbers of small farmers and peasants off the land and into the already overcrowded cities. The prospect, says British Economist Barbara Ward, is of "a tidal wave, a Hurricane Camille...
With that many Americans in the suburbs, the myth has shattered in diversity. Suburbia is something more than the stereotype of buttoned-down Wasp commuters and wives who slurp "tee many martoonis" at the country club. "Gary is as much a suburb of Chicago as Evanston," says Political Analyst Richard...