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...church stands strangely inside a clover leaf of the expressway near Florence, and serves as a spiritual halfway house for travelers. "The general form is that of a tent," explains Michelucci, who designed its sway-backed curves with architectural as well as spiritual freedom in mind. He spent hours daily on the job, changing details in concrete and carpentry...
Suspenders, No Straps. Thus it was naturally Italy's Emilio Pucci, lightweight sportswear champion of the world, who predicted that it would not be long before bikini wearers, dissatisfied with halfway measures and interrupted suntans, would drop their modest pretensions along with the tops of their suits. And though the U.S.'s Rudi Gernreich was the first to snatch the idea off the rack and get it on the market (TIME, June 26), the evidence presented at the fall fashion collections in Florence last week showed that the Italians were not prepared...
Born & Bred. Halfway through the writing of his third novel, Sartor is, he had a vision: "I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. I created a cosmos of my own." He called it Yoknapatawpha County and set it down in the rolling pine hills and cotton-rich valley bottoms of northeastern Mississippi, 80 miles from Memphis, Tenn., named its county seat Jefferson, and peopled its 2,400 sq. mi. with 15,611 residents-"Whites, 6,298; Negroes, 9,313. William Faulkner...
...stroking Crimson crew got off to a perfect start and led by half a length at the 1000-meter halfway mark, but the Harvard oarmen were unable to match Vesper's increasing momentum. Harvard's time was 6:05.3, its fastest time in the trials and a faster than Vesper clocked until the final race. California finished third, nearly a length behind Harvard. Yale was last...
...base of the cross as they are at last raised from the dead by the Crucifixion. They seem to emerge from their eons-long sleep in a mood of joyous bewilderment as they clutch at the Tree of Life's roots, while Christ ascends above them, already halfway to heaven...