Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government gave the movement a nudge in 1961 with a law that henceforward mass transportation must be considered a part of city planning. With close to $200 million of loans and grants, Washington has since helped to finance new equipment and several experiments which indicate that better service and modern equipment will lure at least some drivers back to public conveyances. San Francisco is currently building the nation's first wholly new rail transit system in 60 years, and Washington is planning another. Massachusetts has borrowed $40 million for new subway lines and commuter railroad subsidies. New York State...
Study Meant Damage. It is not surprising that the Bible de Jérusalem has become something of a standard for modern translations: scholars of all faiths freely acknowledge that L'Ecole Biblique is one of the world's most authoritative centers for scriptural study. The school was founded in 1890 by French Dominican Marie Joseph Lagrange, who was a pioneer in countering the age-old Catholic position that to study the Bible was to damage it. Although knowledgeable Protestant and Jewish scholars had long admired the careful work of L'Ecole Biblique's scholars...
Sunken Nails. From the start, Dr. Schroeder did not believe that the growing incidence of arterial disease reflected the presence of such common and natural drinking-water constituents as calcium bicarbonate, with which man has lived throughout history. What concerned the imaginative researcher was pollution by metals that modern man, the metallurgist, now scatters around him in profusion...
...rushed back to France to embark on a tour in which she will-sing 46 concerts in 46 days, at $5,000 per performance. Under the stern scrutiny of France's leading impresario, Johnny Stark, she also keeps up a rigorous schedule of daily lessons in diction, breathing, modern dancing, physical culture and English conversation. So far, she has mastered "hello," "goodbye," and "I love...
There was nothing but silence, however, from modern art's most famous master. "Monsieur and Madame are not at home," squawked a loudspeaker hooked up to the electronically operated gate of his villa, Notre Dame de Vie. A few intimate glimpses of life within still leak out to the world. A recent visitor recalls a prudent Picasso who has sworn off chain-smoking Gauloises, drinks carrot juice at teatime, guzzles thyme tea at other times, and sips wine only sparingly. A lifetime of painter's discipline has not changed. After dinner, Picasso leaps up, announces: "Now I must...