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...Greeks, Romans, Carthaginians, Byzantines, Vandals, Saracens, Normans, Spaniards, Garibaldi and his red-shirted Thousand, the Allies of World War II. Last week the 4,500,000 inhabitants of the biggest island in the Mediterranean were subjected to a fresh invasion. This one was noisy but peaceable, consisting of a stream of orating visitors from the Italian mainland. The attraction was not Sicily's resources or its harshly lovely geography, but its political loyalties. As a semi-autonomous region of the Italian Republic, Sicily was preparing to elect a new regional parliament...
...landscape today. Special ships from France brought the volunteer files du Roi (the King's girls) up the river to marry the lonely habitants and populate New France. In 1759 the river betrayed the colony. The British were able to sail their fleet up its broad stream, conquer Quebec and end the French regime in Canada. But some 50 years later, the river's strategic role was reversed. It served as a protective moat, helped to turn back American forces trying to annex Canada to the newly formed...
Bryson insists, however, that Invitation to Learning is not a program of information, but one of ideas. He proves it by avoiding experts who spout a limitless stream of facts and by seeking out knowledgeable amateurs who can juggle ideas. The show is spontaneous and, unlike many "ad lib" radio or TV shows, unrehearsed. Its quality varies. At times it is pedestrian, at other times brilliant. As Moderator Bryson knows, a half hour is not enough time to get a conversational ball rolling very far. He depends on his listeners to pick up the ball...
After speaking in Williamsport, Pa. Indiana's haggis-faced Republican Representative Charles A. Halleck, House minority leader, had some time on his hands, hustled off to a nearby trout stream. Casting briefly, he soon hooked and netted a 12-in. specimen, later beamed upon it as if it were at least a 12-ft. marlin...
Adjoining "white Leo" is the teeming "native town," known to the Negroes as Le Beige. Without its 350,000 Africans, Leopoldville would crumble in the tropical sun. Each morning, thousands of Negroes bicycle into downtown Leo to work in the shipyards and offices. Evenings, they stream homeward to the jumble of shacks, tenements, modern homes and tastefully built hospitals that make up "black Leo." In the darkness, millions of candles glow under the mango trees where Negro market women do a roaring trade in bread, beer and dried fish, green-and-brown-striped caterpillars (a delicacy when fried in deep...