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Market for Progress. Turkish coal mines dig only one-tenth as efficiently as American mines. Turkish farmers still have few steel plows. But everybody seems to want improvement. Perhaps the most important result of Turkey's uneven march toward modernization is the creation of new demands-a great market for progress. Most Turks would understand the words of Celtik village's oldest inhabitant, 92-year-old Hayriye Soydan. Stooped, wrinkled and deaf, she still wears the traditional western Anatolian peasant costume-flowered baggy trousers, dark blouse, a blue-and-white yasmak (handkerchief) around her head. Sitting cross-legged...
...holds that the Civil War was the work of a "blundering generation," stirred up by "fanaticism" and "warmaking agitation." Other "revisionists," e.g., Professor Avery Craven of the University of Chicago, argue that slavery would have broken down of its own weight, that the war was made inevitable as a result of irresponsible leadership by power-driven politicians. What those leaders should have done, adds Columbia University's Allan Nevins, "was to furnish a workable adjustment" between the North & South...
...Arena Chapel at Padua. But not until last year, at 78, did Matisse himself turn to religious art; then he began work on the little Dominican chapel that he had planned for the town of Vence, in the hills back of Nice. When he has finished, the result may be a 20th Century rival to Giotto's 14th Century work at Padua...
...year moratorium on the Crimson-Green relationship apparently came as a result of the 1912 game which Harvard won 3-0. The CRIMSON remarked in a post-game editorial that "an unfortunate feature of the contest was the unnecessary roughness displayed by Dartmouth...
...Know anybody about six feet tall, maybe 190-200 pounds, not fleshy you know, but hard, hard like, like maybe don Trimble?" That's track coach Jaakko Mikkola's latest line. He's in quest for material to build up his weight squad, sadly depleted as a result of last June graduation...