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...behind Batman, is played straight. Only changes from the 1936-52 radio version are James Bond-type hardware and a bigger-beat theme song, blown by Al Hirt. There is nothing wrong with the show that cannot be cured by turning off the set. Tarzan (NBC) has a vaster menagerie than last season's high-rated jungle epic, Daktari, and just as soupy a scenario. Ron Ely is mesomorphic enough as Tarzan, but he is a trifle too citified-his call of the wild is Johnny Weissmuller's voice. There is no Jane, but the first episode featured...
Diversity & Verve. Vaster in size and more splendid in promise than any other form of community in man's history, the metropolitan complex is the epicenter and embodiment of American life. In its Promethean ambit of inter ests, its cultural diversity and kinetic verve, the city's heart sets the pace for the rest of the nation, and indeed much of the world. It is an unrivaled func tional framework for finance and busi ness, a rich lode of pleasure, a superb showcase for art, theater, music, fashion. At the same time, the "oceanic amplitude of these great...
Wilde was more wry than right.* Niagara may rank 83rd on the list of the world's 100 highest cataracts, but only two (Guaira Falls on the Brazil-Paraguay border, and Khone Falls in Laos) cascade vaster quantities of water. Since the area's first hotel opened on the Canadian side of the Niagara River 148 years ago, the falls have proved one of the most visited, derided and durable attractions in North America. A record 16 million tourists are expected to visit Niagara Falls in 1965. And despite all the quips by wags from Mencken to Mort...
...great crescent stretching 10,000 miles from Iran to Japan live more than a fourth of the world's 3.1 billion people. This is non-Communist Asia, whose vast size and vaster human reservoir make its bitter struggle for a better life of particular concern to all nations. Last week a new report from the United Nations showed just how hard that struggle is - and how far most of the 22 Asian nations in the survey must go before reaching even the most preliminary goals...
WHEREAS: . . . vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow--Andrew Marvell...