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Instant Slums. Washington's first answer to slums was the public-housing program, initiated 32 years ago. From a peak of 58,000 units a year in the early '50s, it has slowed to a 24,000-unit pace, partly because it soon became evident that new housing on old sites only created new instant slums, and partly because other localities refused to have them...
...When a man's wife called the boss last week and said he couldn't get to work because he was in bed with the flu, chances were that she was telling the truth. Across the U.S., the flu season was reaching a peak. In the New York metropolitan area, most of the illness seemed to be of a mild variety caused by still unidentified viruses; New Eng land, Georgia and Florida had spotty outbreaks caused by Type B influenza virus. California, hardest hit, was in the throes of an epidemic of Asian Type-A flu. And Californians...
...Inevitably, in a few cases the flu led to pneumonia, mostly among infants or oldsters whose health was poor to begin with. Among the other victims was Susan Ann Lombardo, 26, the bandleader's niece. There was no way to tell when the California epidemic would pass its peak...
Resentment reached a bitter peak in Lahore, which was actually attacked by Indian troops last fall and has since borne the brunt of Ayub's propaganda offensive. The Lahore demonstrations lasted for a week, killed five persons. Pakistan's squabbling politicians, who have been looking for an issue to mobilize public opinion behind them ever since Ayub turned them out of office in 1958, held a conference in Lahore two weeks ago, at which they loudly condemned the Tashkent agreement...
With the arrival of Chopin and Liszt, romanticism came to full flower. Chopin, who at the peak of his career weighed only 97 Ibs., was an artist of delicate expression: he taught the piano to breathe. Liszt taught it to belch fire. A saturnine dandy with flowing shoulder-length blond hair and a dress coat aglitter with medals, he combined virtuosity with showmanship, worked himself into such a lather that he would sometimes faint. Women hurled their jewels on the stage and fought over the green doeskin gloves that he deliberately left on the piano...