Word: mediterraneans
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...with an imposing expanse of bald scalp, Katzenbach is a son of a onetime New Jersey attorney general. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, was at Princeton when World War II broke out. As an Air Force navigator, he was shot down over the Mediterranean, captured, twice escaped from Italian prison camps, finally spent 20 months in a German prison camp. There, he got the Red Cross to send him the textbooks that he would need for his junior and senior years at Princeton. After his release, Katzenbach returned to Princeton, wrote a thesis and passed both his junior and senior...
This renascence in church architecture was chronicled by Princeton-educated Architect G. E. Kidder Smith, 51, who spent the past five successive summers touring Europe. To write his recent book, The New Churches of Europe, he visited nearly 400 churches from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean, picked 60 to illustrate...
...reports indicate that the Algerian army has sent a top training officer to Brazzaville to open an 800-Simba commando school. Three other camps reportedly have been opened for the Simbas in the southern Sudan, a fourth somewhere in Egypt, and a fifth near Cherchell on Algeria's Mediterranean coast...
...Mediterranean Holiday. A camel fight in Turkey, the Grand Prix auto race at Monaco, the jet pace of life aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Shangri-La-there are some snappy stretches in this Cinerama travelogue, but there are plenty of languid interludes too. The film's ports of call are those of The Flying Clipper, a barkentine of the Swedish Merchant Marine manned by 20 student cadets on a Mediterranean cruise out of Goteborg. Climbing the pyramids, throwing snowballs in Lebanon or striding through the courtyards of Hagia Sophia, the boys appear to consider shore leave a time...
...furnished with a wide assortment of idols and symbols. The center of attraction was usually a chunky goddess modeled of clay in a spread-legged attitude that Dr. Mellaart calls the "giving birth" position. She is, he thinks, an early representative of the Great Mother cult that dominated the Mediterranean world for many thousand years...