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Today she and her husband have a well-equipped machine shop of their own in Paris where they arc-weld great quantities of stainless steel and brass tubing into abstract sculptures that exude a confidence in the mechanical world and at the same time, from certain oblique angles, suddenly open up all manner of allusions to nature. With success, their concepts and commissions have grown steadily bigger. "Using our welding technique," says Brigitte, "there is no limit." For Germany's Tubingen University, they are now putting the finishing touches on a 49-ft.-long commission, their largest to date...
Sunday, September 25 LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). A new ballet about Joan of Arc called "The Captive Lark," by Robert Starer, featuring Carmen de Lavallade as Joan and the John Butler Dancers...
...than 200 fires have occurred, the biggest fire of all raged around the Fortymile River's West Fork, consuming the black spruce, cottonwood and paper birch and turning the green hills to barren black. At week's end, six other major fires spreading across a 500-mile arc still ravaged the nation's largest state...
...saying 'Shaddup!' " But it was not a Hollywood sound stage they were on last week. It was a picturesque, narrow street in the ancient Wiltshire village of Castle Combe, which was also cluttered with sound trucks, mobile generators, scriptmen, Actor Anthony Newley, giant arc lamps that almost topped the moss-grown roofs of the cottages, and a herd of wondering, chattering villagers pressed against the chicken-wire fence, hastily constructed to keep them at bay. Nor is Castle Combe just any pretty village. It is-or was-the prettiest village in England, as certified by polls conducted...
They were right. Gravity and damping devices on the GGTS launched in June have already reduced the arc of its swing from a full 180° to about 30°. By mid-August, its builders hope, the oscillations will have died down to less than 8°, leaving the satellite with one face turned toward the earth...