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...large gift from the $200,000,000 Ford Foundation could help close the gap. Dean David is a director of this newly-formed organization which is about to begin activities and is the largest charitable trust in the United States
Laughing with God will probably always strike most North Americans and North Europeans as something indistinguishable from laughing at God, and kissing and spitting in churches as indistinguishable from gross irreverence. But even if this gap of custom between Northern and Southern Christendom is never likely to be wholly bridged, men of good will on both sides will always appreciate honest, intelligent attempts to throw some sort of span across...
...attempt. A Slimmer in Italy is not only an excellent, heartfelt guide to most of the principal cities of the peninsula, it is also admirably designed to salve the blows of disillusionment that many a pilgrim to Italy this Holy Year is sure to suffer. For the North-South gap is cultural as well as religious, and the new visitor to Italy had better know before he goes that though Florence, for example, signifies "the City of Flowers" its "characteristic smell. . . is horse-dung, its characteristic noise motorcycles and its characteristic sight [black-market] money-changers." To view the beauties...
...tutorial regained by Economics concentrators is a healthy sign. As the College's enrollment declines, it is hoped that other departments will find similar ways of combatting the formality of the lecture system and bridging the gap between student and instructor...
...demand was keeping pace. A prime example was Buick. In March it had produced 48,616 cars, more than in any month in its history. Yet it sold 54,993, and the gap between production and demand virtually exhausted every dealer's stock. The spring fever had even spread to the used-car market. Automotive News reported that the new demand had caused the average price of all used cars to rise to $982, a gain of $44 in two months. In all, the automakers were roaring along so merrily that Ford Sales Boss Jack Davis predicted that record...