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Jacksonville, commercial center of Florida's Duval County, wears all the badges of a prosperous city in a space-age state: bustling expressways, glass-skinned office towers, a rebuilt water front. But Duval's high schools are so poor that teachers raise money for supplies by sending students out to sell candy and chewing gum. Low salaries keep the schools short of teachers and shabbily maintained. Textbooks are old; one history hesitantly predicts that man might some day orbit the earth. But stingy spending on schools finally proved to be a costly policy. The Southern Association of Colleges...
...Gorgopotamos bridge was rebuilt with Marshall Plan funds, and last week busses and trains brought 10,000 leftists to the site to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the explosion. Also on hand was a rightist delegation from E.D.E.S., as well as government officials and army officers. After a Te Deum Mass, much of the crowd began to sing Communist guerrilla songs and shout Communist slogans. Suddenly there was a violent explosion near the bridge. Screaming "Fascists!" and "Killers!" the crowd scattered, leaving behind 13 dead and 51 wounded...
...make a football winner?and the most optimistic experts did not figure Notre Dame for much this year. The school hadn't had a winning season in five years; 22 out of 38 lettermen had graduated from last year's squad that lost seven of its nine games. Parseghian rebuilt the team as though he were running a fire sale...
...14th century Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino, in central Italy 80 miles south of Rome, was razed by Allied bombers because it was being used as a German stronghold. Today the monastery has been rebuilt in all its Renaissance splendor. Nonetheless, said Pope Paul VI, 67, consecrating its new church, "Just as it seems incredible that war should have been made against this abbey, so it does not seem real to us to see it restored. It is as if it wished to delude us into thinking nothing had happened. We do not wish to pass judgment on those...
...Yale, Manning churned out pioneering articles on corporation law, organized lively seminars on everything from state governments to Latin American jurisprudence. He rebuilt a Connecticut farmhouse with his own hands, found time to draft the state's new corporation law and persuade the state legislature to enact it. Fluent in Spanish, to say nothing of Norwegian and Japanese, Manning helped to organize the Peace Corps program in Latin America, did research for the CIA, helped to draft the 1962 Trade Extension Act, toiled for NATO on the problems of a multinational nuclear force and hit the banquet trail...