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
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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.
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