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...school board of Houston takes no interest in foreigners and their ways, and holds pretty much that the navel of the universe is in Texas, very likely in Houston itself. Like its postwar predecessors, it has doggedly opposed teaching little Houstonians anything about the United Nations. Last April it banned every textbook with even a hint of a one-world point of view, finally drove patient School Superintendent William Moreland into resigning (TIME, April 22). Last week it announced the latest phase of its crusade-a revision of the elementary-school social-studies curriculum that will keep Houston...
Delphi was once one of the spiritual centers of the Western world. In this rocky glen beneath Mount Parnassus, 100 miles northwest of Athens, stood the sacred stone called Omphalos-the navel of the earth, where two eagles started by Zeus from opposite edges of creation had met. Close to the great temple of Apollo, which housed the storied oracle and its fume-drugged priestess, each city-state of ancient Greece maintained its own temple. Last week the Greek government announced plans to turn Delphi into a modern center for the spiritual gathering of nations, invited the 15 nations comprising...
...million. Many of them will be surprised at the high French prices, which are up 10% over last year. For nightclubbers, the best bargain is Paris' Lido, Europe's splashiest nightclub-$6 for a three-course dinner, a half-bottle of champagne and a nude (from the navel up) chorus line. Every small town is making a bid for some of the tourist cash, and theatrical and musical festivals will ring all over France through mid-September. Among them: the Chamber Music Festival at Prades (July 15-Aug. 1), the International Music Festival at Aix-les-Bains (July...
...other matters, Gillies is a perfectionist. He has no use for the cancer surgeon who removes a woman's breast and suggests no replacement. Gillies makes an incision from below the armpit, across the abdomen, around the navel and back again. With the flesh thus released, he constructs a tube pedicle flap,* and as he brings it around to the side of the missing breast, the inside-out navel (concave to convex) takes the place of the nipple. After this surgery, a woman has an abdominal scar but no deformity. In some patients, as a result of an embryonic...
Kaye later imitated a yogi. "If you have a navel, contemplate it. I contemplate it. I hate it." He also turned the house lights on, sat on the edge of the stage,, and chatted with the audience...