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...eyes, Scandinavia, like its handicrafts, is a happy union of past and present, of comfortable conformity and bold innovation. Skyscrapers live in harmony with magnificent 8th century castles; sleek new streetcars glide silently over cobbled streets. In Sweden, the visitor may be whisked from a new nuclear power plant outside Stockholm to 500-year-old Uppsala University, where the founder of modern botany, Carolus Linnaeus, studied in the 18th century. ("God created," say the tidy Swedes. "Linnaeus put things in order.") Stockholm cops, though issued guns during Khrushchev's visit, normally cling grimly to their accustomed sabers. Proud Viking...
SUDAN. Some shoebill storks imported from the Sudan make like clowns, but the main attention-getter here is a fragile Madonna and Child painted on the mud walls of a church around the 8th century and discovered last year by U.N. archaeologists scurrying to preserve antiquities from the Aswan Dam backwaters...
...year of experimenting, has a rear-mounted engine, and 14 of the 61 entries at Indianapolis were running with Offies behind. But they seemed far slower than the Fords, and the best a rear-mounted Offy could do by week's end was 153.8 m.p.h. to qualify in 8th position...
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...need of reformation today as it did in Luther's time, and that the church must be willing to attempt new ways of serving the world. While technology and industrialization change the face of society, the church remains trapped in a parish structure that dates from about the 8th century. In certain urban areas, Benedict would like to abandon the idea of the parish as a geographical unit, instead set up small, cell-like units of people linked by intellectual or professional interests...