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...beneath the shoulder of Mount Sinai. Founded in 527 by the Emperor Justinian, it is in one of the world's most inhospitable places. A traveler must drive 100 miles southeast from Suez across jagged wilderness, then turn off along a succession of dry stream beds for an eight-hour climb to the gates, 5,000 feet above the Red Sea. Its one tiny door swings open only for men bearing letters of introduction from the Greek Archbishop of Cairo...
Last week TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin traveled south from Szczecin through countryside dotted with ruined villages, reported: "The western territories are the rawest, most livid scar on the face of Europe. During an eight-hour drive to Wroclaw we saw only eight passenger cars on the highways. In Police, amid the monumental shards of one of the Nazis' biggest synthetic-oil centers, the earth still reeks of explosives and soaked oil. Every week children are killed or maimed by unexploded mines or bombs in the rubble...
...Talk. A longtime foe of esthetes, Benton insists that "dough is the only thing that really inspires an artist-I guess because artists never have much of it." Clad in loafers, blue jeans and an open-neck flannel shirt, he labors a strenuous eight-hour day seven days a week, allows only his black-and-silver German shepherd in his studio because "he never criticizes what I am doing." All the other distractions, including pipes, of which he has more than 100 models, are taboo during work hours. Instead, he chews tobacco...
...Leader José Batlle y Ordóñez, twice Uruguay's President (1903-07; 1911-15), Gaucho socialism at first transformed cattle-and sheep-growing Uruguay into a Latin American Utopia, Uruguayans into devoted followers of the Colorados. They got pensions (usually starting at 50) and the eight-hour day 20 years before the U.S. did. They got a vast network of government industries: insurance, rum, cement, petroleum refining and distribution, electricity. They got paid leave for expectant working mothers, state-paid funerals. They paid no income taxes; intricate exchange rates, in effect export duties on wool...
...Screen Extras Guild reports that some producers of westerns are chiseling on their cowboys by taking them off their hosses too often and photographing them on foot. Cause of the beef: filmland cowpokes get $29.04 per eight-hour day in the saddle, only...