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Trombone to Test Tube. A quietly disciplined scholar whose interests range from Arctic hunting expeditions to collecting Delft pottery, California-born Monty Spaght earned his way to a Ph.D. in chemistry at Stanford with the help of a dance-band trombone. He hated his first job as a research chemist at a Shell refinery but overcame his feelings sufficiently to become the company's top research and development man before he was named executive vice president in 1953. As president of the New York Economic Club, Spaght only two weeks ago introduced British Prime Minister Wilson to a star...
...article in the Belgrade literary monthly Delo, Dr. Mihajlo Mihajlov, a Yugoslav professor and translator of Russian literature, boldly reported that the first Russian camp was set up in 1921 near the Arctic port of Archangel, and sent "to death thousands of members of different revolutionary parties opposing the Soviets." Estimating that possibly 12 million Russians passed through Stalin's concentration camps, Mihajlov recalled: "Stalin's genocide is much older than that of Hitler...
This renascence in church architecture was chronicled by Princeton-educated Architect G. E. Kidder Smith, 51, who spent the past five successive summers touring Europe. To write his recent book, The New Churches of Europe, he visited nearly 400 churches from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean, picked 60 to illustrate...
Canadian High. While the Pacific Northwest was suffering, the rest of the U.S. was enjoying unusually calm and warm winter weather. The Canadian High, another meteorological fixture, moved southward to cover the central part of the continent, protecting it from arctic cold and keeping the bad weather of the Pacific from penetrating much beyond the Rocky Mountains...
...ASGER JORN, 50, a Dane and a former pupil of Leger, makes art scampering with the mythical trolls who lurk in arctic forest shadows. Jorn has dissolved the haunted figures of Nolde and Munch. In his equally demoniac fantasy, man remains only as dismembered memories in a decorative dream, a roiling Rorschach test of tortured, teasing sensibilities...