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Fast Development. Straddling Europe and Asia, Turkey was 300 years behind the industrial countries until Kemal Ataturk lowered the veil and started pointing its face westward after World War I. Since then, Turkey has narrowed the gap to 30 years, at least in its cities. On the surface, this big, potentially rich but long-neglected land looks as if it is striding rapidly toward industrial revolution. Ten dams are rising in the abundant streams and rivers that feed the Tigris and Euphrates, those watering founts of ancient civilization. Going up on the Black Sea coast at Eregli...
...seek other customers, they come up against giants that get tougher as they grow bigger. In the past year, the 500 largest companies in FORTUNE'S annual listing raised their share of all U.S. industrial sales from 56¼% to 56½%-and that fractional gain widened the gap between them and small manufacturers by $1 billion...
...efforts to bridge the gap be tween reason and revelation have had longer life or greater influence than the Guide of the Perplexed, written more than seven centuries ago by Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, better known (by the Greek form of his name) as Maimonides. Just published is the 20th century's first complete English version of Maimonides' classic Guide (University of Chicago; $15). Translated by Dr. Shlomo Pines of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, the Guide freshly emerges as a mirror of an age and as the intellectual masterwork of a remarkable...
...points made was that local students would rather live on campus than commute, and next summer they will probably be encouraged to do so. The possibility of admitting students below the senior year was also mentioned, but most of the students agreed that the gap between grade eleven and college is great enough and that students should not be admitted to Summer School before that time
...time she was 15, Margaret had already won 60 tennis trophies. One year later, Frank Sedgman, perhaps the best tennis player Australia has ever produced, undertook to coach her through the hard-to-cross gap that separates excellence from greatness. Under Sedgman's coaching, she ran, lifted weights, avoided boy friends. "They don't mix with tennis," she explains. In 1960, at 17, she upset Brazil's Maria Bueno in the finals, became the youngest woman ever to win the Australian championship...