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...name sounds like the nonsense syllables of a school yell: Rabun Gap-Nacoochee. The school that bears the name is every bit as unusual. It is half private, half public. Set in the Appalachian foothills of northeastern Georgia, it aims to work not only the minds but also the muscles of its teen-age students. "We believe there is education in physical work, in spiritual development, in living together," says its president, Karl Anderson...
...later, three young men crept into West Berlin's Jerusalem Street, cut in half by the Wall, and planted a bomb. The explosion tore a jagged nine-foot hole in the bricks, shattered nearby windows. Before any lucky refugees could make their escape. Communist Vopos rushed to the gap, threatened the West Berlin crowd with submachine guns. "Get away!" snarled a Vopo, snapping the bolt on his gun. A West Berliner replied ironically: "And a Merry Christmas...
...comprises roughly the eastern half of Massachusetts-to meet the new religious needs of inner Boston. He wants to expand the church's chaplaincy services to universities in the Boston area, and thinks that the church should develop a pro gram of chaplains for industry to bridge the gap between religion and the workingman. "The church," he says, "should try to make religion relevant to the needs of all kinds of people. The church is not a sect organized around a particular doc trine or Biblical text. It is a great fellow ship bound by loyalty to Christ...
Home of the Champions. Nowhere does the game generate more excitement than in Green Bay, Wis., a city of 63,000 that has been hooked on pro football since 1919, when only sissies wore helmets and the mark of a player was the gap between his front teeth. Green Bay has much to be proud of. It has its Neville Public Museum, its Service League, and its 65-piece symphony orchestra. Its paper napkins wipe the mouths of 93 million Americans. Its citizens are kind to animals and hospitable to strangers; they even manage a polite chuckle when visitors joke...
...over the years had become more and more stagy and contrived. The elementary idea that an artist could set up his easel out of doors and produce a serious painting was new and radical in early 19th century France. "Barbizon artists," writes Herbert, "were the first to narrow the gap that had traditionally existed between the direct sketch and the finished studio picture...