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Frequently afflicting college students considering political careers, the syndrome leads innocent young pols to believe initial political success must be, at the bare minimum, to gain election to Congress, where they will stay only until Senate seats become vacant. Of course, they will linger in the Senate long enough to be elected the youngest presidents in American history, where they will serve two glorious terms...
...with the flood of foreign tourists, have made hotel rooms in Peking as scarce, and as expensive, as old jade. If any delegations arrive without confirmed space, they sometimes have to wait for hours while their hosts dispatch messengers to various hotels to snap up rooms as they become vacant. In the coffee shop of the Peking Hotel, the only such Western-style watering hole in town, businessmen often gather to chew over deals in progress and grouse about prices, which for foreigners tend to run two to three times the levels charged the Chinese for everything from restaurant meals...
...Arthur Avenue, however, the scene suddenly changes--four large blocks of vacant land covered with overgrown weeds mark the outer boundary of Belmont. But here Logue has received federal fundings for the construction of 66 owner-occupied homes to be sold with various subsidies to lower-middle-class people. Logue predicts that the project will further the stability of this part of the South Bronx by attracting new homeowners to the area. He believes these homeowners, like the residents of Belmont, will take a more active interest in the up-keep of their community than would renters. For SBDO...
Community groups have joined master-planner Logue in his efforts to redevelop the South Bronx. On Kelly Street in the southeastern part of the area, a group called the Banana-Kelly Community Improvement Association has renovated five vacant buildings with CETA workers and "urban homesteaders." The homesteaders used their own labor as equity in financing the purchase of an apartment they rehabilitated. In one of the worst areas of the South Bronx, on 168th Street and Washington Avenue, another homesteading group, the People's Development Corporation, has rennovated five other tenements. Their remodeled buildings sport solar energy panels, greenhouses, storm...
...secession from Paris. In 1927 he stated his belief that "now or in the near future"-the caution was typical of the man-"American art should be weaned from its French mother." But by the end of the '30s, his aching, rigorous vision of American social isolation, the vacant brownstone windows and blowing curtains, the solitary coffee drinkers, the aloof houses robed in chalky light against the sky, had been assimilated, against his will, into something much coarser: the kill-Paris chauvinism of the "American Scene" painters, so that to inattentive critics it seemed all wrapped in the same...