Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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mission saw was a land of "poverty and hunger," of "barely . . . food enough to keep life in the people," where "vast areas . . . are desert." Though 80% of its 44 million depend for a living on the soil, less than a twentieth of the land is cultivated, and only a tenth of its potential realized. It is backward and unstable, a menace to itself and the world's peace...
...plant a tree and to dig a well." If each nation in the Middle East did its duty about its water supply in the next 30 years, Egypt could raise its food output 30%, Syria 143%, Iraq 183%. Lebanon 37%. One difficulty is that in the vast dry-land area between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, only one of six major rivers-Lebanon's Litani-runs its entire length within a single country. To store and use the 44 billion cubic feet of water that the Jordan River pours annually into the Dead Sea, for example, would require...
...tales of the two-week revolution. The most surprising report, dutifully passed along from Mexico by the New York Times, was that the celebrated 2,000 tons of Communist arms, shipped in May from Poland to Guatemala, were worthless military junk. The shipment, so the story went, included a vast quantity of useless antitank mines, broken-down Czech machine guns and heavy, worn-out cannon...
Casting a disapproving eye on the vast roundup of contemporary art at the Venice Biennale (TIME, June 28), the Vatican's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano last week pronounced the whole show an "artistic debacle." Wrote the Vatican critic: "This is a demonstration of the breakdown of art in modern times. It is so bad that a mere wooden bowl becomes, in this exhibition, a piece of sculpture, while entanglements of wires are considered statues." But what riled the Vatican most were the few paintings dealing with sacred subjects, one of which showed Christ as a skeleton...
...striking sights in Mexico City is the new Communications and Public Works building, not so much because of its great glass and steel bulk as because of a series of brilliant mosaics which run like a bright tapestry over vast expanses of the exterior walls. On the building's north façade the mosaics soar to a ten-story climax where a great mural in reds, yellows and greens covers 4,800 sq. ft. In the center is a figure symbolizing La Patria, a woman dressed in Indian costume; above her is a Mexican eagle flanked by representations...