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...noticed one gap in your reporting. How do members of the professional trades-plumbers, carpenters, painters, etc.-feel toward the loss in business when prospective customers compete with them? . . . Could it be that our society is moving toward a more self-sufficient home-centeredness such as existed during our pioneer...
Behind the haggle over details, however, is the common conviction that in case of real trouble, all are in it together. Thus the new Balkan pact, in effect, closes the last gap in NATO's ring around Europe, which begins in Iceland and extends to Mount Ararat. So happy did Tito feel about the whole thing that at the party after the signing, he passed word around that he meant to celebrate until the small hours; anyone who was sleepy should forget about protocol and leave ahead...
Bold Experiment. To Harold B. Dunkel, director of the University of Chicago's precollegiate education program, this sort of work is part of a bold new experiment. A professor of education with a Ph.D. in Greek, Dunkel has long been worried about the "enormous gap in communication" between the nation's high-school teachers and its college professors. ("Communication between the two groups is not only bad, it is practically nonexistent.") Last summer, with a $30,000 grant from the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education, Dunkel started some college-level courses for high...
Critic Thomson's musical taste buds respond best to French music, and his own scores (Louisiana Story, Four Saints in Three Acts) resemble it in their neatness, transparent textures and often, inconsequence. His departure leaves a gap in the ranks of U.S. music journalism: there is now no practicing musician in its top ranks, no dedicated champion of modern U.S. composers. His post on the Trib will be filled by Columbia University's Budapest-born Music-Historian Paul Henry Lang, author of the scholarly, 1043-page Music in Western Civilization. Quips one friend: "He thinks music ceased...
Mountain Dynasts. When Kentucky was becoming a state, a pair of tall, silent brothers from South Carolina crossed Daniel Boone's Wilderness Trail and settled in the foothills beyond Cumberland Gap. Ever since, the descendants of Malachi and Edward Cooper have been prominent in the affairs of Pulaski County...