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Some of the frescoes recently unearthed on Santorini and put on public display at the Archaeological Museum at Athens are shown on the following color pages. Beyond any doubt, they surpass all others found so far in the Mediterranean region. The frescoes of Knossos, for example, are less delicate and free, less motionful and rhythmical than these. As for the celebrated splendors of a later age found at Pompeii, they would seem dry and artificial if set side by side with the Santorini frescoes. These new discoveries show Bronze Age civilization at its peak. The doomed people of Santorini were...
...Most important is oil, which was discovered there in 1956. With a current output of 1,700,000 bbl. a day, Nigeria has passed Iraq and Canada to become the world's ninth largest oil producer. The government's share of the profits is expected to surpass $1 billion this year and $1.25 billion next year...
Labor has won a number of concessions from the Nixon Administration, including pay hikes that surpass the 5.5% guideline. But if the time comes when Nixon must crack down, union members are likely to forget their differences with George Meany and close ranks behind him. There are already signs of just that. Says David Crippen, a member of the Social Services Employees of Los Angeles: "For what must be the first time in its history, this local is supporting Meany." The Battle of Bal Harbour was an opening skirmish in what promises to be a long, bitter political campaign...
...capita gross national product ($2,064) is already ahead of West Germany's ($ 1,848). Some time in the middle of this decade, according to Common Market economists and Futurologist Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute, France's total G.N.P. will surpass that of West Germany. The result would give Frenchmen the world's fourth largest economy (after the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Japan...
...young American journalist working in London, I disagree with your contention [Nov. 1] that "young Englishmen seem to surpass" their American counterparts in the ability to write vividly. No reflection on the Sunday Times staffers, but I suspect there would be more young Americans writing just as vividly if there were more American organizations as willing to spend nine months and $60,000 on one series...