Word: overcrowdedness
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The day after they hit Cam Pha, planes from the two carriers bombed Haiphong itself, penetrating closer to its center (eight-tenths of a mile) than ever before. Avoiding the Soviet and other foreign ships jamming the piers, the pilots smashed overcrowded warehouses, chopped up the railyards and knocked spans...
Acapulco's squalid, crumbling jail is so overcrowded that local authorities fear a breakout, have called in the army to help keep an eye on the city's 519 prisoners. Northern hippies who came south for Acapulco gold (maximum penalty for possession: six years) were jammed in with...
It started off as a name for Beatle George Harrison's hairdo, became a discothèque, and will now exfoliate as a business empire. At least Sybil Burton Christopher, 38, major stockholder and drawing card of Manhattan's bon-ton discothèque Arthur, is making an...
Declaration of War. The newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine reflected the attitude of many older Germans when it called the student protests "a declaration of war against society." Other observers, however, applaud the youthful activities. They see it all as a fitting reaction to the authoritarianism that is still prevalent on German...
Judge Wright found that the District of Columbia spends $100 more per pupil in its few predominantly white elementary schools and that these schools have vacancies, while Negro schools are overcrowded. Wright ordered the school board to bus Negro children to fill vacancies in the white schools beginning next fall...