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...surrounded by a granite wall, can be entered only by one main gate. Inside is a maze of a thousand ruined houses, temples, palaces, and staircases, all hewn from white granite and dominated by a great granite sundial. In Quechua, language of the sun-worshipping Incas and their present-day descendants, the dial was known as Intihuatana-hitching post...
...heart of present-day London is a one-square-mile area known simply as the City. After the Great Fire of 1666 wiped out its 13,000 houses and 84 churches, from Pudding Lane to Newgate, the City was gradually rebuilt-most of its churches by Sir Christopher Wren. But by World War II it had become more and more a place in which to work rather than to live; the nighttime population was down to 8,000, and after the blitz there were only 5,000, many of them caretakers and night watchmen. But there were still the remains...
...your [July 14] cover story "Ah, Wilderness?" suggests, Daniel Boone would be ashamed of the present-day luxury-laden camper...
This waste does not bother the present-day farmer; the sunlight that falls on his fields is free. But commercial florists, whose greenhouses already blaze with artificial light to speed the flowering of their plants, must pay heavily for electric energy, and much of it is wasted on light that plants cannot use. For florists, and for housewives who grow African violets in dark apartments, Sylvania's special fluorescent lamp, called Gro-Lux, may mean a significantly smaller electric bill...
...Some of the quotations, while verbally correct, were so much out of context that they seemed to say what I did not really say. The "abysmal mediocrity" was part of a long historical summary on the ups and downs of Catholic higher learning, not an indictment of present-day efforts. The charge of being "almost universally destitute of intellectual leadership" was from a paragraph much later on that referred to a specific problem: "As to civil rights and equal opportunity for all races, we have been almost universally destitute of intellectual leadership in our colleges and universities. I know...