Category: Social change

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Sarcelles & Cergy – How to Build Some More City

PARIS – The high rise towers and garden apartments of Sarcelles would seem quite ordinary outside any American city. They mark the familiar sleepy town boomed with city people. In fact, with its attractive trees, somewhat distinctive architecture, walking-distance shopping and general air of liveliness,

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A Slow Season for Marienbad This Year…

PERMANENCE—Statues from the facade of Marienbad’s solid buildings look down on a new, different world whose nostalgia calls for the “reality” of yesteryears. (Photos by Janos Gereben) MARIENSKE-LAZNE, Czechoslovakia—“Last Year in Marienbad” was filmed somewhere else, but its name came from here, this resort town

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FA’A Samoa Faces the World

313 Anolani St.  Honolulu, Hawaii Western Samoa is the home of the tribe that did not lose its head. Instead its 135,000 people have embarked on one of the more isolated but interesting experiments in the Pacific Area. It involves trying to preserve the biggest

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Coming of Age Via ETV

313 Anolani St.   Honolulu, Hawaii   The scene was not unlike those repeated thousands of times in the last century in colonial islands around the South Pacific: The Great White Governor was arriving for a ceremonial visit and the men of the small out-islands

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New Pacific Primer – I

Honolulu, Hawaii June 2, 1968   The following is a view of the Pacific Islands from Hawaii based on previous travels, reading and talks with area scholars, visiting islanders and concerned U.S. officials. It is a starting point for a year of study and travel