Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...influence in Boston during the 1920s. Old Benjamin Lassiter (Stephen Elliott) was obviously suggested by Old Joe Kennedy: bootleg whisky and ward politics are his main concerns. The children, however, are not at all like the Kennedys. The only son, Robert, mopes around drinking mostly because he left an arm in Flanders fields. He does provide what passes for the central dramatic point of the first episode by leaving a formal dinner party to visit a cathouse. As for his sisters, they are an equally sorry lot: Fawn is a free spirit who seems to be modeling herself on Isadora...
Soil Scoop. On Mars, the laboratory will be served by a mechanical arm, which will reach out and scoop soil up from the surface. One small sample of soil will be dropped into a vessel containing natural Martian atmosphere. Then water vapor and carbon dioxide tagged with radioactive carbon 14 will be added. After five days of incubation under simulated Martian sunlight, the atmosphere will be removed, and the soil heated to 1160° F., hot enough to vaporize organic material. If any organism in the soil has incorporated the radioactive carbon dioxide by a process similar to terrestrial photosynthesis...
...place until the official arrived. He responded that if he had not removed it, a passing tractor might well have chopped it to pieces. Besides, there was much more of the statue at the site. The sewer pipe, at first thought to be a leg, proved to be an arm; within a few feet was a breastplate magnificently decorated with warriors in hand-to-hand combat. Some parts may be missing, but when the remnants are assembled, Israel will have only the second life-size bronze statue of Hadrian known to exist...
Died. Sir Peter Daubeny, 54, British impresario; of a brain tumor; in London. Trained as an actor, Daubeny found his stage career shattered when he lost his left arm at Salerno during World War II. He rebounded as a promoter-organizer, touring Europe, Asia and the U.S. to recruit troupes such as the Moscow Art Theater, Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble and the Martha Graham Dance Company for performances in England. In 1964 he founded the World Theater Season, which brought foreign companies to the Aldwych Theater (London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company) every spring for a decade...
Long Shot. It has taken all this time to find a true talker. Arlen might easily have fixed his face in a harsh attitude. It would have been facile for him to sentimentalize the Armenians, Saroyan style, or to hold them at arm's length, as his father did. Instead, after the atrocious accounts and the sense of humanity's dreadful fragility, Arlen realizes that the "I" has become part of "them," that "to be an Armenian has meant that one has been compelled by circumstance to rise above or fall below -or, anyway, to skirt-these...