Word: cosmopolitans
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...eight years old, and its high white contrails and graceful, swept-wing planes are familiar sights from the most cosmopolitan cities to the farthest provinces of the globe. Flight has grown into an absolute essential for mobile, modern man. By occasional tourist and veteran traveler, the big aircraft are recognized as the most comfortable, convenient means of long-distance travel. Yet hardly a passenger escapes entirely from an ancient skepticism, a lurking suspicion that manned flight is somehow unnatural and inherently dangerous. The hazards are always magnified. Just as the Sunday driver tends to minimize the difficulties of the crowded...
Hester has raised admission standards, tuition and faculty pay, has lured such a cosmopolitan student body to the Manhattan and Bronx campuses of the nation's largest private university that half of its 41,000 enrollment now comes from outside of the city, nearly 10,000 from outside of the state. Determined to make N.Y.U. "a resident university rather than a commuter university," Hester now has 1,600 staff members and 5,000 students living near the main campus in Greenwich Village. For additional faculty and student residences, two towering apartment buildings by Architect I. M. Pei are nearly...
...Radio decided to give it a whirl, spent 24 hours trying to contact a Viet Cong agent in Prague, got one who spoke neither French nor English, finally gave up and asked the professor just who it was he had spoken to. "An interpreter and translator, a very cosmopolitan and sophisticated person," was Lynd's airy reply, "but not an authoritative spokesman...
...onetime Manhattan commercial artist who decided to concentrate on the more interesting aspects of the business, painting pictures of stylish, pink-cheeked "all-American girls who have plenty of sex appeal, but don't show it," which quickly became favorite covers for such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post; of cancer; in Madison, Conn...
Basking in the Caribbean sun, Venezuela is by far the richest nation in Latin America. Cosmopolitan Caracas sprouts skyscrapers like banana plants, boasts some of the worst traffic snarls and best restaurants this side of Paris, lures fun-seeking tourists from the cruise ships and profit-seeking investors from the world over. The fuel of Venezuela's economy is the country's fabled pool of oil, greater than that of any other nation except the U.S. and Russia. The black gold that foreign companies pump from beneath the muddy floor of Lake Maracaibo enriches the Venezuelan government...