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...traffic. Independent trucking operators pose another hazard, for they often overload their rigs and use pep pills to stay awake on long hauls, which can make them dangerously overtired on the road. The men driving for the big companies superstitiously shy away from rigs that they know have been rebuilt after a wreck. The road limits a man's vision of the world, but to many it becomes almost an addiction. "A trucker is a trucker," says Chuck Graves. "You've just got to like it. We like the feeling of the open country-how big it really...
...University of Cairo, he got his start in 1946 by borrowing supplies from shopkeepers in his home town of Ismailia to build a one-car garage. Profit: $15. He went on to construct schools and gained national attention in 1952, when, in a record 60 days, he rebuilt a village that had been destroyed by British troops in retaliation for guerrilla attacks. Expanding outside Egypt, he put up an airport in Saudi Arabia and the new Parliament building in Kuwait. Nasser nationalized Osman's Cairo-based company nine years ago, but guaranteed him a free managerial hand and full...
...component of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, falters into the '70's as a bureaucratic failure, Conceived in the early '60's by the energetic and supposedly visionary aides of the Kennedy Administration, the program has not served, attracted, or catalyzed the people of America. It has not rebuilt the social solidarity crucial to the health of the democratic systems...
Washington was a late starter, coming along only ten months ago with a design for a vast "New Town," in which whole sections of the city would be rebuilt at a cost of $4.5 billion...
...would deny that Israel's air force is the best in the Middle East. Arab air forces were largely decimated during the Six-Day War and are still being rebuilt by Russia with new MIGs and Sukhois. Qualified pilots are more difficult to come by. Egypt has 415 planes, but it has also lost perhaps a quarter of its pilots; the ratio of planes to pilots presently seems to be about 4 to 1. As a result, Egyptian flyers have been offering far fewer challenges since last September, sometimes bailing out after only minor damage to their planes...