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...Wide Wide World whisked its audience all over the map. The camera lazed its way down the Mississippi, poked into a New Jersey lane where lovers walked and old men raked autumn leaves, wandered around Gloucester harbor as fishermen mended nets. There were vivid contrasts between the chasm of the Grand Canyon and the topless towers of Rockefeller Center, the swaying wheat fields of Nebraska and the money-conscious hubbub of the Texas State Fair, an underwater ballet from Florida and the overwater speed trials of Donald Campbell's jet racer at Arizona's man-made Lake Mead...
Virgil to Eliot. For a historian such as Gibbon (1737-94), says Lewis, it was only natural to see the chasm between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. "The partial loss of ancient learning and its recovery at the Renaissance were for him both unique events . . . But we have lived to see the second death of ancient learning. In our time something which was once the possession of all educated men has shrunk to being the technical accomplishment of a few specialists . . . "To Gibbon the literary change from Virgil to Beowulf . . . would have seemed greater than...
...hand in the negotiations, was pleased. The pact strengthens the Middle East's "northern tier" (the defense line from Turkey to Pakistan). Pakistan, hitherto isolated on the northern tier's right wing, exulted. "It's good to be a bridge instead of feeling like a chasm," said a Pakistan official. The Pakistani were talking of including Iran too, which like Turkey and Pakistan is Moslem but not Arab...
...certainty of never making a very high salary if he chooses the teaching profession. Yet today's graduate students are the ones who must teach the bulge of war-baby students that will soon crowd into the nation's colleges. If mass education is not to slip into the chasm which many experts foresee, the continued high quality of these graduate students is more important than ever before. Obviously, there is no simple solution to these two types of problems. A Rockefeller could grant $20 million to divinity schools--but the ministry is a comparatively small profession, and each grant...
Across the great chasm of religion which divides the Middle East, a strange alignment was growing last week between Moslem Turkey and Israel. Trade, not affection, brings them together. Three years ago Turkey imported a paltry $70,000 worth of goods from Israel. Now they have developed a $28 million annual exchange of goods, and Turkey has become the No. 1 customer for Israel's manufactures. Turkey sends wheat, cotton, cattle and oil seed to Israel and last year got in return $5,000,000 worth of cars and jeeps (from Israel's Kaiser-Frazer plant...