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THE ULTIMATE CITY III-TECHNOLOGY AND FRONTIERSMANSHIP.
profiles · October 15, 1966

PROFILE of Los Angeles. One of the subversive groups active in the state is the John Birch Society, which Ronald Reagan, candidate for Governor, has …

THE ULTIMATE CITY II-THE MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION.
profiles · October 8, 1966

PROFILE OF Los Angeles. There has been a burst of High Cultural activity recently Less than 2 yrs. ago a new Music Center was opened in the old downtown …

THE ULTIMATE CITY I-UPWARD AND OUTWARD.
profiles · October 1, 1966

PROFILE of Los Angeles, a huge, dynamic city with a population of nearly 3 million. Though built on a near-desert, it is the most far-flung of the …

HOME TOWN
a reporter at large · November 7, 1964

A REPORTER AT LARGE about Salisbury, Connecticut; its history and a look at modern Salisbury. A new high school the Housatonic Valley Regional High School,…

CENTER OF A NEW WORLD
profiles · April 25, 1964

PROFILE of Cambridge, Mass., and the globalization of its academic world, tells about MIT's Center for International Studies. Interview with Lincoln …

CENTER OF A NEW WORLD
profiles · April 18, 1964

PROFILE of Cambridge, Mass., speaks of the renaissance the hospital world of Baston has undergone of late. This world consists mainly of Harvard, Tufts, & …

I-CENTER OF A NEW WORLD.
profiles · April 11, 1964

PROFILE of Cambridge, Mass.: its scientific community; its industrial fringe along Route 128, & its two seats of learning, Harvard and MIT, which have …

THE EKISTIC WORLD
profiles · May 11, 1963

PROFILE of Constantinos Doxiados, a Greek, teacher, architect and city planner, who seems to have come up with the most popular answer this far to …

III-GRECIAN CALENDAR: MYKONOS.
a reporter at large · July 21, 1962

REPORTER AT LARGE about a 4-week stay on Mykonos, one of the Cyclades, the largest group of Greek islands. A fast walker can go from one end to the other …

II-GRECIAN CALENDAR-GUIDED TOUR.
a reporter at large · July 14, 1962

REPORTER AT LARGE about a four-day guided bus tour from Athens to see the ruins of Delphi, Olympia, and the section of northeastern Peloponnesus that …

I-GRECIAN CALENDAR-ATHENS.
a reporter at large · July 7, 1962

REPORTER AT LARGE. Not long ago the writer spent a year in Greece, making Athens his center of operations & occasionally travelling about in the country. …

THE PUERTO RICANS: JOINING THE STREAM
a reporter at large · December 21, 1957

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Puerto Ricans in N.Y. & about the strain put on the school system by the influx of non-English-speaking pupils. As far as …

PUERTO RICANS: AMONG THE COLD PEOPLE.
a reporter at large · December 14, 1957

REPORTER AT LARGE about Puerto Ricans in N. Y., and about how the migrants react to being classified as colored. The darker Puerto Ricans react by …

II-DOWN ON THE ISLAND
a reporter at large · December 7, 1957

REPORTER AT URGE about the Puerto Ricans. Tells about the wonders worked by Puerto Rico's present administration, headed by Luis Munoz-Marin, who in …

I-EL BARRIO DE NUEVA YORK
a reporter at large · November 30, 1957

REPORTER AT LARGE a bout the Puerto Ricans in N.Y. estimated at 550,000. The idea that Pueto Ricans come here with the idea of getting on home relief is …

ASPECTS OF A MEETING PLACE.
a reporter at large · November 23, 1957

REPORTER AT LARGE about San Francisco-America's gateway to Asia. Since the Second World War, the Bay region universities have gone in far more heavily …

ASPECTS OF A MEETING PLACE
a reporter at large · November 16, 1957

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Orientals in San Francisco, the meeting place for East & West. Discusses the Chinese, the Japanese & the Filipinos in Calif., …

A PAGEANT IN SACK SUITS.
a reporter at large · January 19, 1957

REPORTER AT LARGE about the UN General Assembly session now going on. Membership is split up into three blocs. One is the Asian-African group. They have …

A Walk With Vinoba.
a reporter at large · October 22, 1955

REPORTER AT LARGE about Vinoba Bhave, the holy man who walks through India begging land for the poor. Vinoba started this Bhoodan, or Land Gift, movement …

The Story of the First Sherpa to Climb to the Top of Mt. Everest
a reporter at large · June 5, 1954

Tenzing Norkay has been on more Everest expeditions than any other man, and he probably “deserved,” if anyone did, to reach the top.

THE WHITE CHINESE
a reporter at large · April 12, 1952

REPORTER AT LARGE about the anti-Red or White Chinese who escaped from China to Hong Kong when the Communists took over. Exiles have swelled population to …

NOT SEEN, NOT HEARD, BUT FELT
a reporter at large · January 5, 1952

REPORTER AT LARGE about spending an evening in an opium den somewhere in China in the company of J. L. Fu, a scholar. While Mr. Fu smoked a few pipes he …

THE END OF OUTER DARKNESS
a reporter at large · May 20, 1950

REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip over the Tatsienlu road from the city of Yaan to Tatsienlu, the capital of China's Sikang Province. The country beyond …

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