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...inhabitants, is five times as populous. Moreover it is caught up in a vast migration from rural areas to cities, especially to the 350-mile-long megalopolis stretching from Tokyo to Osaka. The result is a spiraling real estate inflation that has lifted Japan's urban-land price index 670% since 1955, has made land in Japan the most expensive in the world. Frontage on the gilded Ginza shopping thoroughfare in central Tokyo sells for as much as $18 million per acre v. top prices of about $9,000,000 in choicest Manhattan, $6,500,000 in San Francisco...
...many centuries, royal patronage was an index to British culture. Eliza beth I learned that "the Italians had the name to be the cunningest," but what Italian paintings the crown acquired were largely sold off by Cromwell though the Restoration Stuarts searched to recover them...
...unleashed a passion for aggiornamento in the most tradition-encrusted of churches. Catholicism's vitality shows in the new liturgy, and in the zest with which a generation of "open church" priests and laymen are calling for more reforms of outdated rules (clerical celibacy, for example), institutions (the Index of Forbidden Books) and teachings (birth control). The renewal at the Vatican has also had a striking impact on the sister churches: it challenges the Reformation faiths to re-examine how reforming they still are. "The ecumenical breakthrough in Catholicism has changed the climate of the times," says Dean Samuel...
...World War II bomber pilot. Ryan flew 58 combat missions in Europe, on the final one lost his left index finger to flak; in SAC circles he is fondly, but not to his face, known as "Three-Finger Jack." In 1946 he helped plan U.S. atomic tests at Bikini atoll, then joined SAC, which was just being formed. With the exception of a year's tour as Air Force inspector general, he has been a SAC man ever since, most recently serving as Power's deputy commander. He knows all the tools of his trade, is an expert...
...guide's editors-James Cass, associate educational editor of the Saturday Review, and Max Birnbaum, director of education and training for the American Jewish Committee-base their "selectivly index" on the scholastic potential of the student body. The index, they claim, "is a crucial measure of the academic quality of a college because...an institution of higher learning can never be much better than its student body-and is not likely to be much worse...