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from the Bloody Citadel...
...cities stirred-but it was more than the zephyrs of spring that stirred them. For thousands of years, since ancient Ur rose on the banks of the Euphrates, man has sought out the city as a place of wonder and opportunity, a citadel of art and learning, the home of kings and gods. In the U.S., in the spring of 1962, he did not have to look far in any direction to find its towers near at hand. Never in history has a society been so urbanized: seven out of every ten Americans, 125 million strong, live in cities...
With Wright running the attack Memphis State might be a match on any given Saturday for any team in the U.S. So far this season, the aroused Tigers have casually mowed down such opponents as Tulsa (48-12), The Citadel (40-0) and Hardin-Simmons (56-0). But nobody-knows just how strong Memphis State really is; few big-time football schools will risk their carefully built reputations to find out. For next year, though, Coach Murphy already has scheduled top-ranked Mississippi, and he is optimistic about Memphis State's chances of crashing the big time...
...towering citadel of Sardis, the Harvard-Cornell team found that a deep gorge, which once cleaved the peak, had been filled with rock and refuse swept from fallen buildings. Some of the pottery pieces found in the gorge are identical with crockery of the Phyrgians. According to ancient traditions, the Phyrgians were once overlords over the Lydians, and the new findings help to confirm this...
...time he reached Uruguay, just over the border from his citadel of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's Chamber of Deputies had voted 298-14 to approve his inauguration as President as the first step toward the conversion to parliamentary rule. There was an agonizing delay as Denys struggled to convince his more militant partners-the navy and air ministers-to follow his lead and give way to what was obviously the popular will. They wanted to know in advance one key fact: Who's going to be the Premier? The man most agreeable to Kubitschek...