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Understroking the Yugoslavs for much of the race, the Crimson stepped up the pace to 40 as the boats reached the 1600-meter mark 400 meters from home. They opened up a gap of more than a length, and withstood a power burst at 44 by the Yugoslavs with 200 meters...
...Free-spending G.I.s have pumped vast new purchasing power into the marketplace, but there has been no comparable increase in consumer goods to absorb the new money. At the same time, stepped-up military construction has drained labor and materials from the civilian economy, further widening the gap between supply and demand. Building workers' wages have doubled in the last six weeks, while everyone from bartender to B-girl demands and gets higher prices for his services. In the country's boom-and-bust mood, speculators, profiteers and black-market rings have battened greedily on the cities. While...
...composed by professionals, liturgical jazz is inevitably something of a special taste, and too distracting for the average congregation. Moreover, the up-tempo rhythms of modern jazz chafe against the stately language of the Roman Missal or the Book of Common Prayer. Yet many churchmen are hopeful that the gap is being closed. "Jazz today is a valid form of musical expression," says the Rev. Alva Cox, who has promoted liturgical jazz on the National Council of Churches' television series Look Up and Live. "Our conviction is that, far from being a musical form simply for entertainment...
...eight weeks this summer, Head Start will try to make some headway against the sad fact that too many children are not emotionally, psychologically or physically ready to bridge the gap between crowded, repressive homes, where they are told to shut up, and the public school, where they are asked to open up and learn. The project puts kids of four, five, and six into "child development centers," where under close personal attention they will be encouraged by simple successes to avoid the spiral of failure that often starts with school's first day. They will have physical examinations...
...believe, love." What Martin Buber taught, he also lived. A lifelong Zionist, the century's greatest Jewish thinker nonetheless preached friendship for the Arabs of Palestine. He was Judaism's first ecumenist, who revered Jesus as much as a Jew might, and gently, unpolemically defined the gap that only God could bridge between the two types of Biblical faith. A leader of German Judaism until he went to Palestine in 1938, Buber fought Nazism with patriarchal dignity; yet he accepted an award from a German university a few years after the war and begged Israel not to execute...