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...CENTER of the new prosperity is Taipei, a city of open sewers and closed minds. Taipei's International Airport is the main entrance from the outside world. The jets land, and taxi past ancient anti aircraft guns, past USAF cargo planes and the prop planes of the tiny Asian airlines...
...Fielder also went on to criticize the Rosenbergs' attitudes towards art, sports. Literature, and Judaism, and the couple's statements on these topics in their posthumously collected letters were, in fact, typical of a warped agit-prop sensibility. Both Fiedler and Robert Warshow [Commentary. Nov. '53] contended that the Rosenbergs lived an existence governed solely by their Communism, and that this was somehow disgusting. But even though the critics' background held traces of the Rosenbergs' Bronx roots, they weren't concerned at all with the process by which the couple's beliefs invaded the very marrow of their lives...
...Some pieces, such as Phyllis Mark's kinetic pendants, which suspend shimmering abstract forms within silver ovals, are even sold with stands so that they can be displayed as glittering tabletop art. Other works, like the slablike silver and Lucite pendant by Denver Sculptor Barbara Locketz, need no prop...
...arrival of a top-flight diving coach, John Walker, and two time Eastern prop diving champion, freshman Dave English, may make the Crimson diving both more palatable to watch and more productive on the scoreboard. Junior John Zakotnik, who came on strong late last year, continues to improve rapidly and the English-Zakotnik combination may have the talent to sweep several meets...
...granting a rate increase to American Telephone & Telegraph Co. last week, the Federal Communications Commission took an action that will help to buttress the U.S. stock market, prop up capital spending and hold down interest charges. When AT&T rates and profits rise, many things happen in the broader realm of business. First, AT&T stock gets a lift; because it is the most widely held issue of all-3,750,000 investors directly own 549 million shares-a rise in "telephone" tends to give a psychological impetus to the whole market. Second, the company can more easily draw upon...