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...Mi (book by Garson Kanin; music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green) has certainly its good things-though not enough to make it a good musical. Its top draws, Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, greatly compensate for how little else-actually, just the best lyrics-is top drawer. But other things prove of use; and the general setup-Silvers as a little man aching to be a big shot and inducing some old slot-machine racketeers to muscle in on jukeboxes-has a promisingly raffish...
...done to invoke such wrath? To preserve peace in Latin America at the beginning of World War II, Washington was reluctantly involved in a centuries-old border dispute between Ecuador and Peru. At issue was a triangle of steaming upper Amazon jungle almost as big (77,000 sq. mi.) as Ecuador itself. For 400 years the tract had been claimed by both nations. Then, in 1942, the U.S. -along with Brazil, Argentina and Chile - promoted a settlement, the Protocol of Rio de Janeiro, based on Peru's de facto control. Under the protocol, the four nations were also...
...Dardanelles, on the ancient Greek invasion route to Troy. For tips on the island's precise location, he reread the pertinent passages in Homer and other ancients. Then, studying a detailed British navy map, he came upon a sunken land mass known as Kharos Bank, a 10-sq.-mi. area near the island of Lemnos, mentioned by Homer in connection with Chryse...
Berea (1,300) .0.............. Berea, Ky., 40 mi. S. of........................... $420 (no tuition) Lexington
Cornell College (738)......... Mount Vernon, la., 15 mi. ...... Meth. ..............$2,000 S.E. of Cedar Rapids