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...southeastern Sicily, the islanders have a name for the bleak hill town of Ragusa: una brutta citta-an ugly city...
...court success, Rupp has a ready reply: "That's easy. It's good coaching." Though Rupp's answer may affront rival coaches, the record backs up his contention. In Rupp's 23 coaching years, Kentucky teams have won more than 85% of their games, 14 Southeastern Conference titles, three N.C.A.A. championships, one National Invitation Tournament, one Olympic title. Unhappily, some of the Olympians were caught taking bribes (TIME, May 12, 1952), and the N.C.A.A. suspended Kentucky all last season. Last week Kentucky came back with a bang. In a preseason speech, Rupp had wisecracked that...
This marked a partial healing, which may become total, of a sore spot that has troubled southeastern Asia for four years: the presence of 7,000 to 9.000 (Burma says 12,000) Nationalist Chinese troops .and hangers-on in northern Burma. After Burmese protests in the U.N.. the General Assembly backed the Rangoon government, and an agreement was negotiated to bring out some 2,000 of the alien guests with their unit commanders. Last week's evacuees were the first installment...
Only Turks. The nation he put back together was slightly larger than Texas-296,000 sq.mi.-its vast bulk nestled in Asia Minor, with 9,000 sq.mi. wedging into Europe's southeastern corner. Kemal was satisfied. "We are now Turks-only Turks," he exulted. He wanted none of the old overextended Ottoman empire. "Away with dreams and shadows; they have cost us dearly," he said...
Down in the Southeastern corner of Ohio, a few miles off the Marietta River at the small town of Athens, stands Ohio University, a state-supported co-educational college of 5,000 students. For over 149 years Ohio has been offering a good inexpensive education to state boys and girls; because this February the school celebrates its Sesquicentennial or 150th anniversary, the directors have chosen to play Harvard in football. Since the actual observance of Founder's Day falls some time in February of 1954 a certain amount of doubt has arisen as to whether Harvard is playing Ohio...