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...those he had dashed off on his travels showed a masterly touch. In a few confident strokes of smooth color, Bedikian could re-create the patient labor of a Capri fisherman's life, the lazy alertness of street urchins, the sag of a dray horse pulling a heavy load. Since Painter Bedikian still lacks the official critical accolade, his pictures were selling at the relatively modest average of 90,000 francs (about...
...turnpikes are the newest answer to highway congestion. The U.S., the most mobile and mechanized nation in the world, is wearing its roads out faster than it builds new ones. At the same time, the amount of its passenger and freight highway traffic keeps growing. In 16 years, the load on U.S. roads has more than doubled, from 518 billion ton-miles in 1936 to some 1.4 trillion ton-miles in 1951. And the number of vehicles has grown from 28 million to 52 million. But the U.S. is spending only $2.5 billion a year on roads while $4 billion...
...folklore of modern secular education, it is widely held that college religion courses, to be admissible, must have all the faith squeezed out of them. In consequence, many U.S. colleges load their religion curricula with "safe" and secular subjects, e.g., the Bible as literature and contemporary religious ideals. The School of Religion at the State University of Iowa has long disagreed. There, along with conventional, basic religion courses, a harmoniously working faculty of Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish clergymen give honest representations of their respective religious teachings in separate courses and for college credits...
...radio drama, NBC is passing part of the load back to its affiliated stations with Portrait of a City, a show intended to let local stations dramatize the "personalities" of their home towns. The Author Speaks offers such dissimilar writers as Mary McCarthy (The Groves of Academe) and Princess Ileana of Rumania (I Live Again). CBS has on tap the Frank Fontaine Show (situation comedy) and Romance ("The dramatization of light, romantic stories...
...washer and a dryer for one nine pound load will cost a student 50 cents. After each day of use, the machines must be delinted and the room cleaned. The members of the committee have decided to split these chores between them to avoid hiring and paying...