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...just looked in wistfully as we hurried to other places. Inside the high walls we found a kaleidoscope of color and language. Voices and faces. Magic reflected in a balloon. Thin and flaky countries. Rich and buttery countries. Somewhere mixed in with the fire-smell of sausages, the Armenian girl's long veil, the proud colors of an African cloth--somewhere there is what we really are. Taste something strange and sweet and wonder. Or smile from the warmth of an inherited identity. And still wonder...
...Rome, it watches over 35 million Catholics in Asia, Africa and much of Latin America. Concerned about the struggle of the church with Communism in these areas, Pius XII appointed one of the Vatican's wisest old hands as prefect: Gregory Peter XV Cardinal Agagianian, an Armenian who holds the ancient title of Patriarch of Cilicia...
...short lifetime (he was 43 when he died), Gorky knew more than his share of sorrow. Born Vosdanig Adoian in Turkish Armenia, he was three when his father deserted the family and ran away to avoid being conscripted into the Turkish army. During the Turkish massacres of the Armenians, his mother fled with the boy and his three sisters to Erivan in Russian Armenia. After his mother died at the age of 38, Gorky and his youngest sister decided to go to the U.S. Barefoot and ragged, they made their way to Tiflis. There they joined a band of Armenian...
With him Adzhubei brought to Salinger an assortment of Armenian brandies-and an invitation to visit Russia in the spring. To the chagrin of many State Department regulars, who look with concern on Salinger's diplomatic dabblings, the President promptly approved the trip. In the amiable atmosphere, Adzhubei even suggested a child exchange. He offered to send his three sons, ranging in age from three to nine, to stay with the Salingers for a few months if Salinger would send his three children (Stephen; Marc, 13, and Suzanne, 10) to Russia to live with the Adzhubeis. Salinger said...
...into the University of California at Los Angeles, their drivers stoically paying the 50? automobile admission fee that U.C.L.A. charges to discourage overcrowding the 411-acre campus with cars. Out of the cars stream 9,500 night students, who head across the campus for courses that range from modern Armenian to thermal management of spacecraft. Along with the students come some 300,000 culture-minded visitors a year to such events as a film series on the supernatural, or a superb new production of Measure for Measure (TIME, Jan. 26). Thousands of extension students last week jammed registration offices...