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THERE is a new, privileged, spotlighted, envied group in the U.S. It is composed of "the singles"-the young unmarried whose label connotes, as in tennis, an endeavor more vigorous, more skilled and more fun than mere doubles. Proportionately, there are fewer singles in the population than there were 20 years ago, because young Americans are tending to marry at an earlier age. But they are the focus of a major part of advertising and salesmanship, the direct target of new approaches in housing and entertainment, the considerable despair of some established institutions, and the apostolate of a freer code...
...Fellows program is just as experimental as the rest of the Institute's endeavor. Intensively experimental, with all the characteristics thereof: disorganization, gaps, trial-and-error on the one hand; innovation, excitement, freedom on the other. And we don't yet know the results. The returns aren't in; the experiment continues...
...President unveiled sketchy blueprints for the bridges in Arco, Idaho, last August, when he urged that Washington and Moscow embark on a "common endeavor" toward peaceful cooperation. In New York six weeks later, he went further, describing "a reconciliation with the East" as "one of the great unfinished tasks of our generation." Since then, the President has eased trade restrictions on the export of more than 400 nonstrategic items to Eastern Europe, approved the opening of a Moscow-New York air route, put discreet pressure on congressional leaders to approve a long-pending agreement to open consular offices in selected...
...very location was lost until 1709, when monks in Resina, a city superimposed by chance on Herculaneum's grave, uncovered some marble theater seats while sinking a well. Other diggers plundered Herculaneum of everything their tunnels exposed. "It is one of the tragic ironies of human endeavor," writes Deiss, "that the suffocating mud did less damage to Herculaneum than the earliest excavators...
...companies that form the London-based Rothmans Group; its members manufacture and market each other's cigarettes in order to eliminate inefficient competition. Several members of the Rothmans Group support the arts-young painters and symphony orchestras in Britain, contemporary sculpture and theater subsidization in Canada-but each endeavor is independent, and Turmac is the only company thus far to commission and exhibit works of art in its factories...