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...other hand I was really not prepared for what I saw in Saigon. There are three and a half million people in Saigon, a city which was built for one tenth that number. The noise, the filth, the smog are overwhelming. The city is full of Hondas bought with American money. There are little kids everywhere begging. There are lepers in the streets. At night, when it quiets down, you can hear the artillery firing into the countryside...
Girl Scout. Angela Davis, 26, is black and, slogans aside, beautiful. She is an outstanding scholar and teacher as well. Outwardly, the circumstances of her early life seem almost contrivedly good: both her parents were schoolteachers in Birmingham, Ala., where she went through the tenth grade as a straight A student. Her father, B. Frank Davis, now a service-station operator, remembers her as a happy child. "Girl Scout outings were fun to her then," he said last week...
...activity came just as the Calcutta police were finally demonstrating an ability to handle the terrorists. In July, police rounded up 125 Naxalites and an arsenal of bombs. But, as one Calcutta police official admits, "police action is only one-tenth of the total effort required to curb the Naxalites." The other nine-tenths is social reform. In its 23 years of independence, the world's largest democracy has been running a dangerous race with famine, poverty and overpopulation. Unless reforms can improve life for the bulk of the Indian people, the bomb could replace Mahatma Gandhi...
...major, the easiest key to play in. Brahms' First Symphony ranks second (114 performances). Beethoven's Fifth, whose dit-dit-dit-dah victory opening can be whistled by more nonmusical people than any other classical theme, is way down to 39th place on the list, as against tenth last year. Mozart is the most popular composer (1,627 performances overall), with Beethoven and Brahms tagging respectfully just behind...
...wealthy New York building contractor and the boy was spoiled rotten. He cut school several days a week and lounged around, soaking his head in delusions of athletic grandeur and working up torture projects in the style of Poe. In ninth grade he flunked everything, after the tenth he dropped out of high school. He entered Tufts College on a forged transcript, and when he was busted out a couple of months later he forged another and was admitted to Brown as a second-term sophomore...