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Industrial and Urban Britain. Pictures of the lush beauty of England with its rich meadows, its meandering rivers, and its cattle standing knee-deep in pastures under the great elms, or of the lonely lochs and heather-covered hills of Scotland, should not Blind people to the fact that Britain is one of the great industrial countries of the world. An industrial country must, of course, be an urban country; every other man in Britain is a big-city man, and the British way of life is increasingly urban or suburban.

The commitment of the gov-|«miient to rapid development of the economy ! the base of much of the country's diffi-_ Attempts to organize agricultural cooper-s failed because of financial mismanagement, i assistance from the Communist countries, w-ere undertaken for rapid mechanization ulture; but because most African farmers i._: uot prepared for mechanization, the plan uM leaving a large investment in machinery Twb for lack of maintenance. As a result of ' dlures, Guinea's farmers began to turn icks on experiments in modernization that (1 their traditional way of lilfe. iie industrial sector of the economy, lack (1 labor and of investment capital virrought industrial development to a halt. il investment from the Communist coun- •'•n tended to be in projects for which i> little need or for which the country repared.

The four Illinois cities of Rock Island, Moline. East Moline, and Silvis, together with Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, form the industrial center of a metropolitan district which include- the greater part of Rock Island County, Illinfi'- ••• Scott County, Iowa. It is in the mid-rich farming area. Though these cities a-arate civic entities, they have a comrmi: interests, industrial, economic, and social. ... bind them together, such as their support of tne Tri-City Symphony Orchestra, one of the oHes symphony orchestras in the country.