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...cannot say that Harvard's teachers are bigger, better, longer lasting, more glamorous or less irritating than those of our competitors. They don't wear more chrome, have longer fins, provide fewer calories or come equipped with more effective filters...
...columns, troweling plaster into place, and punctuating the din of hammering and riveting with curses in half a dozen languages. Forty-four nations are striving to ready their pavilions for the Brussels World's Fair, which opens April 17. Behind the fair's grand display of bunting, chrome, cantilevers and parasol domes lies a deeply serious purpose. By next autumn, some 35 million visitors (all Brussels hotels are booked solid for three months after the fair opens) will file through the gates, judge and compare the nations by what they see before them...
...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, became one of the deftest interpreters of the International Style initiated by France's Le Corbusier and Germany's Bauhaus school. In recent years he revolted against the monotony of cityscapes composed of acres of glass façades. chrome and exposed steel. Instead. Architect Stone turned to his own great love of classic monuments and deep love of beauty. "In my own case," he says, "I feel the need for richness, exuberance, and pure, unadulterated freshness...
Into Wooster, the county seat, drove bearded Amishmen who hitched their buggies near chrome-splashed V-8s, walked heavily beside their black-bonneted wives into the courthouse, where three Amish couples were on trial for contempt. Their offense: after refusing to let their children start the ninth grade, they carted the three teen-agers to an Amish settlement in Pennsylvania, defying a court order that they be placed in a children's home and allowed to go to school...
Turkey in 1950 still had something close to a colonial economy. Despite its coal, iron and water power, it remained an industrial pygmy, earned most of its foreign exchange by exporting tobacco, cereals, filberts, raisins, figs and chrome ore. More than 65% of Turkey's 20 million citizens were still illiterate. Four out of five of the nation's 36,000 rural villages had no proper drinking water. More than half of Turkey's 27,000 miles of "highway" were officially listed as "passable by carts during the dry season only." And Turkey's peasants...