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...perhaps ECA's biggest impact on Turkey has been its road-building program. Turkey is a big country, cut apart by rugged mountain ranges and vast areas of distant plateau. Counting everything which wasn't simply a wagon track, ECA found barely 13,000 miles of roads, only 5,000 miles of them good enough for a truck. In the event of a Soviet attack on Turkey, the eastern Mediterranean port of Iskenderun (Alexandretta) would be vital; 360 miles northeast of it is Erzurum, headquarters of the Third Army which controls the Soviet-Turkish frontier. Yet there...
...interference can be successfully disposed of or avoided altogether, the alarm reaction will recede. However, frequently the source of interference cannot be avoided or eliminated. Under such circumstances, the sharing of anxiety with nonanxious or non-threatening individuals by means of communication becomes an efficient device for tolerating the impact of interference...
Many colleges are now considering increasing their tuition after this year. Excerpts are printed below from a report on "The Impact of Inflation upon Higher Education," issued by the Commission on Financing Higher Education on which Provost Buck serves...
...ground, hoping to pick up fragments of nickel-iron. The soil around the Arizona crater is full of such stuff, but not one bit did they find near the Chubb Crater. Geologist Meen suspects that the Chubb meteorite may have been made largely of stone, which disintegrated on impact and drifted away as dust...
Last week the performance was a near sellout and a hit. Reason: Berg's tragedy of the simple soldier betrayed by his mistress proved to have so much stage impact that even traditionally conservative Austrians were bowled over. They hardly had time to notice the fact that Berg's music was full of wrenched, tortured and distinctly unconventional effects. Baritone Josef Herrmann sang the title role with pathos, but no mawkishness. Christl Goltz, currently one of Germany's most popular sopranos, was forceful as the wanton mistress. For Stage Director Oscar Fritz Schuh and Conductor Karl Boehm...