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...future of American higher education lies not only in the ivy-covered buildings of Cambridge and Berkeley but also in the bayous of Louisiana, asphalt jungles of Harlem, and the mountains of Appalachia. The challenge of educating the impoverished is being met by men like Dr. Thomas Johns of Pikeville College. The student reaction shows how difficult the challenge really...
...east. Polish and Russian troops quickly seized the industrial city of Ostrava in northern Czechoslovakia. Some 250 Soviet T-54 tanks raced from Hungary into the Slovak capital of Bratislava. They hit the city at an awesome tank speed of 35 m.p.h., their smoking treads churning up the asphalt as they knocked down lampposts, street signs, even automobiles that stood in their...
...Last Landscape is a how-to book. It tells how to spot open land that is worth saving and how to save it. If anything, the job is easier than ever before. There is less undeveloped land available and a widespread respect for it-a reaction against the asphalt flats and dreary subdivisions that marked the great surge of postwar building. "Outrages are educational," says Whyte. Too, new state and federal laws designed to conserve open soace have been enacted, and many localities have devised ways of protecting or enlarging their holdings. Even subdividers have learned that it pays...
Waves of Mirage, Mystère and Skyhawk fighters swooped in on Salt, plastering the El Fatah headquarters with rockets and napalm, strafing other suspected El Fatah installations near by and setting asphalt blacktop boiling on roads for miles around. Citrus fruit sizzled on branches in neighboring orchards. When the planes let up briefly, the people of Salt streamed out to survey the damage and were hit by the second wave of planes that caught ambulances, taxis and a television mobile unit from Amman parked out in the open. Two dozen people sought shelter in a culvert, but an Israeli...
...years following the Revolution, the constructivists published manifestos, attained key posts in Soviet schools and workshops, and succeeded in tying their artistic ideals to the official Soviet Marxist dogma. Tatlin continued to design abstract collages, experimenting with industrial materials: zinc, cables, iron, stucco, glass and asphalt. He maintained that constructivism was the true art of the masses because it was part of the machine age. It could be mass-produced, it married impractical art to socially useful architecture, and it represented a departure from the decadent realism of the Czarist past. With mixed feeling, Berlin's Dadaist Raoul Hausmann...