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...exceptions, Micronesia looks-and is-a poorer place than in the heyday of the Japanese, reports TIME Correspondent Frank McCulloch after a five week tour of the islands. Occupying U.S. forces leveled much of what the Japanese built that was still intact after the war. Even what survived was seldom maintained, such as the once excellent water system on the island of Dublon, in Truk lagoon, now rusting in disuse, or the jungle-swallowed road on Babelthuap that once enabled outlying copra farmers and fishermen to bring their goods to market...
Before he became a novelist, Thomas Hardy was an architect. Though he seldom practiced his profession, he never quite abandoned its principles. Like Victorian buildings, his books were sturdily constructed, gloomy, and based on strong, pseudo-classic foundations -mostly imitation Greek tragedy. The film of Far from the Madding Crowd remains faithful to that arrangement -and therein lie its virtues and flaws...
...numerous classrooms. Better yet, just record his performance on videotape, use it repeatedly, and free the teacher to do something else-possibly even to talk with students. Today more and more colleges are finding that not only is a taped professor as informative as a live one, but he seldom turns sour and never grows weary of talking...
...Virtuous? The old brume seldom clears...
Being Wrong Together. Covering such disparate parts of the world, fathers and sons seldom cross paths-and maybe it's just as well. The only occasion when the Friendlys met was the 1965 election in Turkey. Without necessarily consulting each other's notes, both confidently predicted that the left would make impressive gains. Come election day, it turned out to be the conservatives that triumphed at the polls. On another occasion, the Friendly bylines were inadvertently switched by the Trib, putting Senior momentarily in Nigeria, Junior in Israel. And then there was that day last month when Junior...