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...Bridge. It was Oct. 7, 1952 when 15 priests and five lay brothers arrived from France at an abandoned children's camp at Tioumliline. Their mission: to transform the camp into a monastery, follow the secluded, contemplative life of their order. But the goal soon broadened; the Benedictines sheltered Arab political refugees displaced by the swelling national unrest, and word of the monks' kindness quickly spread. Soon the monks were treating some 200 Berbers a day at their newly built dispensary, sheltering and educating a flock of 20 orphan boys. No attempt at conversion was made. In fact...
...should be adopted as a permanent part of our military system, unless it is to become merely an emergency measure for the remedying of a temporary reserve crisis. Since the basic purpose behind the six-month program does not appear to be of this temporary nature, any move to transform it would be unwise...
...project, to be built on-a 31-acre site in Boston's Back Bay area near Copley Square, will transform a gritty industrial area into a modern metal-and-glass city-within-a-city. Much of it will be built over the train yards of the Boston & Albany Railroad. Huge pilings will be driven into the ground to form a foundation for the project's centerpiece: a $50 million skyscraper, 50 stories tall, 40% of which will be used by Prudential for its regional headquarters. Around its huge tower, the Pru will also build a complex of airy...
...million air base for the Chinese Nationalist government in central Formosa-which the U.S. Air Force will be permitted to use at will. The new field, to be "the most modern" on the island, will be capable of handling B-36 and B-52 bombers, will thus fully transform Formosa into a major strategic bombing base...
Djilas had also written: "The experience of Yugoslavia appears to testify that national Communism is incapable of [instituting] the kind of reforms that would gradually transform and lead Communism to freedom...