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...industry, will later be used for educational and scientific purposes. One of the fair's most spectacular features is its International Fountain, designed by two young Tokyo architects whose plan won a $250.000 international competition last year. Sunk in a 100-ft. bowl of white crushed limestone, the fountainhead looks like a bristling World War II sea mine, shoots jets 100 ft. into the air, and presents 20-minute programs of changing shapes, colors and music. Also to be preserved after the fair: an 800-seat theater, a 5,500-seat arena for circuses and ice shows, a monorail...
Milan's opulence is no sudden sparkle or passing phenomenon. The city is the dynamic fountainhead of the biggest, most sustained comeback that any European nation has made from World War II ashes. Germany has had its economic miracle, and France its postwar resurgence; both are still prospering but at a slightly slower pace. North Italy has sustained its boom. In Milan the Gothic finials of the renowned duomo now have to fight for recognition against a skyline of striking new skyscrapers. From the Piazza del Duomo rises the bedlam that only Italian traffic can generate. In front...
Though the company is new to the U.S., American audiences have long been familiar with its graduates. In pre-Bolshevik days, the Kirov was St. Petersburg's Maryinsky company, fountainhead of Western ballet. In graceful profusion, it produced the dancers Nijinsky and Pavlova, the choreographer Fokine, the impresario Diaghilev. Its demanding, perfectionist teachers seeded the world's great troupes with their students: Galina Ulanova went on from St. Petersburg to her triumphs with Moscow's Bolshoi, and Choreographer George Balanchine used his Maryinsky training to reshape the entire U.S. ballet scene...
...that had everything. The cast of characters, including beautiful, amoral women and recklessly brutal men, seemed right out of the nouvelle vague French films. One of the nation's greatest fortunes was involved. Best of all, the crime itself was inspired by what Frenchmen believe to be the fountainhead of criminal violence...
...proportions" and an "immense" military establishment. "In the councils of Government," he said, "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." Nor, he added, should free scholarship become the handmaiden of the Federal Government. "The free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a Government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination...