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...Arab League nations* plus Tunisia and Morocco-personified all the quarrels which have rent the Arab world for 40 years. And some of the quarrels persisted at the meeting. But before long the beauty of Fawzi's plan had turned the meeting into an old-fashioned Arab love feast. ("You could practically smell the camel roasting," cracked one U.S. newshen.) At the end of the session, Lebanese Foreign Minister Charles Malik, who only a week ago was vigorously denouncing the U.A.R. for indirect aggression, impetuously enfolded Fawzi in a bearlike embrace. And two days later, when it came time...
THIS summer more than 225,000 travelers who wanted to catch their breath and feast their eyes have stopped in the small (pop. 19,000) upstate New York glass-manufacturing center of Corning. On view in the Corning Museum of Glass, which is part of the new laboratory and research center of the Corning Glass Works (makers of Steuben crystal) are 128 choice examples from the greatest age of Venetian glassmaking: the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries...
...feast of philanthropy spread for U.S. colleges each year by the nation's business firms and foundations, the 130 nonaccredited small colleges are so far below the financial salt that most of them do not know what it tastes like. The viciously circular problem: to be eligible for most grants, colleges must be accredited, but to be accredited, they need grants that bring faculties, libraries and classroom buildings up to the levels required by the nation's six regional accrediting associations. Two years ago several of the fund-starved colleges pooled their problems (TIME, March 5, 1956), formed...
...little noticed during the fat times of the earlier 19503, when almost all producers were pouring and earning close to 100% capacity. But it was during the lean months of 1958 that the steel industry, led by U.S. Steel, demonstrated that it is no longer a cyclical industry of feast or famine. Steel can now operate profitably in slump periods when many another industry is forced into...
...buggy to a rodeo in Prescott, Ariz. (His comment: "I looked to see if they dressed the way cowboys do in the movies, but they dress better"), and in Williamsburg, Va.. true to the colonial spirit, he draped himself in a yard-square bib for a roaring good feast at the King's Arms Tavern...