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Nelson Reed Writes Of Farewell To Istanbul Flies Through Clouds To Rome Having taken a long last walk nn the dirty, rough streets of Istanbul and pitied the poor bo draggled sorrowful people we saw, we had no regrets on leav ing. We shall always remember Istanbul as a violent contrast between magnificent mosques, an unbelievably magnificent castle, moro gold and jewels in one mu scum than in all of Europe, and poverty on all sides. Nor shall we forget the hundreds of beaten up old American cars used as taxis. We took off for Rome on one of Pan Am's DC8 jets, flying over the Dardanclls, near Mt. Olym pus in Greece, over Brandisi in Italy to come down gradually from 33,000 feet to land at the Rome Airport. Unfortunately it was overcast most of the way and we missed a lot of fine Scenery. At the airport in Rome Die fun 4wgan. Vou hope and pray that vour luggage got on the same plane you did. Of course six or eight flights from all over the earth on as many airlines al ways arrivo at any big airport about the same June which helps. You line up four deep along a counter as the bags tumble off a conveyor and pile up in a heap. Like an Easter egg hunt ynu run back and, forth peering over and around other wild eyed travelers who jabber and gesticu late in seven different languages. Then one by one you spy the lit tle red or white crosses of adhes ive tape you put on your bags - Waving your hands like a na live you speak English, French and sometimes Spanish to Italian porter who has been through all this many times be fore and just grins and takes his own sweet time. Eventually you get to the customs counter and glory be, they don I botlicr to open anything. Just chalk up your bag some more so it looks as if kids had been playing tit- tat-toe on it. Then you battle your way to a window where a patient, sad looking little man casually ClHnccs at your passport and stamps it. Next you have to change what over small money you have from the last place to what they arc using In this placo so ynu can buy a hus ticket and tip the por ter. And you belter think what you're doing for much of this foreign money looks alike but isn't, and you are liable to give the porter enough- " gl drunk fur a month If you aren t carelul Finally you get on the airport hus for town being darn sure your bags did' too. You heave a sigh of relief. Rome at last I Rut don't kid your self. It is still an hour away by bus and then you must take rah to your hotel. All in all ynu will have spent more time on the ground between Istanbul and April 21 a large glass box, In the lor of it a bird silting on a perch dipped his bill into a bowl of water, tipped down and spilled it into a large spoon guch in turn spilled over as it filled, raising the handle of the spoon which actuated a pendulum fastened to il and thus controlled the move ment of the hands. You could watch it all work and strangest of all il agreed exactly with my watch. If you just knew your Roman history well enough you could sit in this beautiful park and dream of the wonderful life the old Ro mans led. But then you might have a nightmare and dream that vou had been poisoned or stabbed to death with a jeweled dagger by one of the infamous Borgias. Rome. April 21 We have neither the learning nor me concert i miL-win describe properly all the magnif iccnt things we have seen here the last'W days. So we shall just give you some of the high lichts. and you shall nave use vour imagination or the best illustrations you can lind in rjoi tcr appreciate them, First we visited ht. I'etcr which stands at one end of great court, lis cupola as largi as the old Roman Coliseum from which its dimensions were tak en. Inside tne camcarai on ine walls and ceilings arc beautiful mosaics. Here is one of the best known works of Michelangelo, the "Pieta." A lovely whit marble statue of the Virgin Moth er holding the dead Christ in her arms. We visited the Vatican and the Sistene Chanel where we looked up in awe till our necks creaked, admiring the magnificent paint ings of biblical history that Mi chelangclo painted, lying on hi back. In the Sistene Chapel we saw the never to lie forgotten statue by Michelangelo of Moses. He sit there majestically, sternly looking down on his people in s a p p r 0 v a I, the ten com mandments on two stone tablets tucked under his arm. We drruu! across the Bridge of Angcis so named tor an me mar ble statues of angcis that line the railing nn either side of the bridge. We thought they must be kept busy putting their wings around all the poor pedestrians who dodge dizzy drivers all day long. in a small cathedral we vis ited there were paintings nn the ceiling that by some trick, the artist had made to appear three dimensional. You could have sworn that they were carved fig ures and that the painted cupola was not flat hut 50 feet tall. a courtyard wo saw another trick. You looked down through a long roofed walk with pillars either side at a statue in the, distance. The walk seemed 1 hundred yards long and the sta tue 10 feet tall. When you walked through you found that the pil lars were spaced closer and clos er together, the roof was gradual ly lower, and when you reached the statue, 50 feet away, it was cute little figure four feet tall. The old Romans evidently hired famous architects and artists to iCicate conversation pieces on the grand scale. We visited the vast ruins of the Coliseum where the gladia torial contests were hold. We saw where the Vestal Virgins sat who decided on the life or death of I the defeated by turning their thumbs down or up. You can just bet that the poor guy lying there on the ground with his cold blooded victorious opponent standing over him, hoped that the virpins had slept well the night before and were feeling cheerful. We saw where the Christians were kept before they were herd ed out to be thrown to Ihe lions, and the pens where the wild ani mals lived to be loosed to fight with men armed only with jspears, nets, swords and such little pastimes the emperors kept the 'people's minds off the op prcssive taxes. We could do with a few such diversions ourselves. From a terrace high above we looked down on the vast ruins of the Roman Forum. Here all the famous events of Roman history took place, things that we read about in school came creeping back. Over there Cicero har-l nged Ihe Roman Senate. And down there Caesar was slabbed and Mark Antony made his fa mous speech. Shut your eyes and you could almost see and hear them. We saw the magnificent sta- fceble weapons. By such pieasantldiums that were built for the last Olympic games, the main stadium that scaled 200,000 and! the beautiful smaller marble sta dium where they held the track and field events. The seats were all of marble surrounding smooth green field with a fine red cinder track. Around the top of the seats were sculptured white marble statues of young athletes who depicted every type of sport engaged in during the games. Each statue was the gift of a different Italian city. In ad dition there were a great many apartments built just to house the participants. The whole Olym pic project cost Italy a vast amount and profit wise it was a bitter disappointment we gath ered for only young people with little money to spend were inter ested enough to come. Portland should think that over. One day we drove out about two miles to visit the famous Ti- voli Gardens. There were built in the 1700s by a disappointed weal thy man who had three times tried to become Pope and failed so he went off and built himself a castle and these famous gar dens, ine gardens are a series of terraces built down a very. steep mountainside with literally hundreds of fountains. A moun tain stream is controlled to flow- through a series of fountains on various terraces. The water squirts out of all sorts of lovely stone statues of gods, goddess es, men and women and animals. On one terrace alone there arei 100 different animals spouting water from their mouths. At the bottom of the gardens there is. a large rock waterfall which you can walk under. Walks lead through a formal garden beauti fully planted with rows of huge Cyprus trees 60 feet tall. The whole thing is like a fairy talc! and must have cost a king's ransome to build. We remarked very wealthy. "Oh nfl," the guide told us, "he just taxed the people of Tivoli enough to pay for it all. jThings aren't much different to day when you stop to think of it. We have been writing this out in the park where all was peace and quiet when we started but uddenly the park tilled up with kids of all ages. Alongside of us the park bench are seated a group of school girls chattering like magpies and on the road alongside a loudspeaker is broad casting election chatter and play ins terrible music. So, if some of our previous remarks are a bit hat the owner must have beenlfuzzy you will please forgive. PAGE 12-B HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Wednesday, May 1, 1963 Home than you did in the air. Once again we are getting taxi phobia. The wild taxi man who drove us to the hotel in his motorized corker box old man Fiat has packed Rome solid with his toys should challenge those Kami kaze drivers in Japan to see who could miss the most pedestrians by the least inches and give the most passengers heart failure. That one trip convinced me of where I am Roing to use my international driver's license. They rent toy cars to kids over in the park. That for me. Rome. April 22 F.very once in a while cities seem to put on a celebration just for us. I-aM night from the roof of our hotel we watched a most spectacular display of fire works. It was as if all the Fourth of July fireworks you ever saw all went off at once. It was In the celebration of llie JJIftlh birthday of the City of Rome, founded by Remus and Romulus as I recall. Tins bright warm morning we wandered through the magnifi cent Borghese Park. II was giv en to Die citv by Ihe fabulous Borghese family and is unques tionably one of the loveliest parks in the world, particularly this time of the year. For spring has just wakened the trees and the flowers and they have put on their loveliest new clothes. There are huge pines, as large as any of ours but of a different species; handsome horsechesnuls hthcre are huge pines, as large asany of ours but of a different species j handsome horsechesnuts with the large leaves and Christ mas live candle blossoms; gor gcoux large trees of unit un known variety to me covered with tiny lavender blossoms with no leaves. Everywhere there are beds of pink, red and white aza leas with here and there lovely lrg w istrria vines and small trees. Alongside the main boulevards through the park there are end lesa rows of Ihe busts of famous Romans, marble on stone pedes tals, statesmen, writers, poets, musicians, philosophers, gener als and hemes, a whole Roman history Is here. Qeautiful foun tains and interesting stalues In marble and bronze team erry where throughout the park. Strangest of all was a huge water clock. Below the large dial. tat works wera eocloscd in 4-H News MAI.IN WOOI.IKS The third meeting of the Ma tin Woolies was held March 21) nt the home of Mr. Tofell, our leader, after school.. The report was given by the goals commit tee. All of the ones chosen were approved. Mr. Tofell Informed us that he would make frames for our feed and water buckets. The next meeting will be at Margaret Blnhm's home on April 10. Thirleen .members and seven visitors were present. Visitors were: Dana Ottoman, Mr. and Mrs. Blohm, Louise Slaslny. Mrs. Tofell. Mrs. Street, and Mrs. Stevenson. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Tofell. The fourth meeting of Ihe Ma lta Woolies Sheep Club was held at the home of Margaret Ann Blohm on April 10. Reports were given. Patty gave one on white muscle and Jimmy gava one on hoof rot. Billy Street and Linda Stastny will give two on scours and sore mouth al the next meet ing. There was also a film on good Judging. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Blohm. Twelve members and twelve visitors were present. Visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Mr. Hajnus, Mrs. Stevenson. Mrs. Tofell. Mrs. Stastny. .Mrs. McCulley. Mrs. Blohm, Louise Stastny, Dana Ottoman. Will Blohm and Danny Hajnus. Linda Stastny. ixews Reporter. PAROLED FOR (l)I.I.K(.K NASHVILLE. Tenn. lUI'D A correspondence course coed was Riven a parole Horn prison Mon day so she could attend Ihe Uni versity of Tennessee. The St.Se Parole Board grant cd the freedom request of Sarah Jcanett Johns. 22. who was sen- Irnjyd in 1IW9 to 10 years Impris onment for luring a man Irom a bar so two soldiers could rob him Miss Johns said she had earned II college credits through corre spondence niurses in her cell and Ihe university said it would ac cept her application t she coukli get a parole. 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