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Wide Enough for a Corpse on a Cart...
...Ancient Rome banned all women from driving chariots, and decreed that no one could drive near the Colosseum during the gladiator-baiting. Europe's early roads charged stiff tolls to pay for improvements, such as sufficient widening "to let a man pass with a dead corpse on a cart." The Romans, using heavy stones in layers, built a 50,000-mi. network of roads that wound through much of Europe and North Africa...
...ideas about conflict and tragedy in literature. "You don't have to convince these kids of the tragic view of life," says English Teacher Bruce MacDonald at Yale. "They know life is tough." Typically, the schools get the students up at 5:30 a.m., work them until noon, cart them off on tours of civic and his torical sites in the afternoon, assign three hours of homework, and provide time for the kids to have long talk sessions with advisers. Many of those who show promise will be given preferential admission if they apply to the same college after...
...Smith is a very meticulous man. At the plant of his Wolverine Aluminum Corp. in Lincoln Park, Mich., where aluminum corners, gutters and sills for houses are made, he rides about in a small electric cart, making sure that workers use ashtrays and do not throw gum wrappers on the floor. When Smith listed his growing firm (1964 sales: $7.2 million) on the American Stock Exchange last month, he traveled to Manhattan to get the usual VIP treatment: a tour of the exchange, lunch with the officers, the chance to buy the first shares of the traded stock. What...
Vigor, Strength & Anger. The son of Jewish emigrants who had fled czarist Russia, Goldberg grew up in poverty: his father used a wagon drawn by a blind horse to cart produce. Arthur went to Northwestern University Law School, where in 1930 he got a doctorate in jurisprudence and ranked No. 1 in his class. He got into the rugged world of labor law, in 1948 became general counsel for the C.I.O. and the United Steelworkers, helped plan the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger. On Capitol Hill he met John Kennedy; they became good friends. Later Goldberg became one of Kennedy...