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...located behind the Radcliffe Health Center, on Brattle and Ash Sts., the new Quadrangle will house approximately 150 graduate students, with additional meeting and dining facilities for 300. The Graduate Center will include sound proof rooms for typing or musical practice, a TV lounge, snack counter, sun deck, laundry rooms, a game room and miscellaneous lounges...
London's fogs, which once romantically shrouded the nocturnal prowlings of Sherlock Holmes's Professor Moriarty,† Stevenson's Suicide Club and Mrs. Lowndes's Lodger, now veil an even grimmer killer: the estimated three tons of soot and ash that sift daily out of the sky over each square mile of Britain's larger cities. In one smog-bound week last December, 4,000 Londoners died from trying to breathe the noxious combination of smoke and fog that choked their city...
...Tokyo to the hot springs in the Buddhist Temple of the Understanding Way in the mountains of Hakone. There, one day last summer, a landslide roared down the mountains burying the child, her mother and eight others beneath a varicolored rubble of clay, pumice, granite boulders and choking volcanic ash. Rescue workers searched among the debris for bodies, but before the remains of Yoko and her mother were found, the search was abandoned. Yonosuke and his sons went on digging alone, for he had vowed to "search for the bodies for the rest of my life, if necessary...
While Mrs. Perle Mesta, ex-U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, was off on her guided tour of the Soviet Union, some highly discriminating thieves broke into her Newport, R.I. villa, next door to the mansion of Railroad Financier Robert R. Young. The booty: three egg cups, several ash trays and a small selection of cups & saucers...
Dappled Gleam. Ceramists have long guessed that the purplish Temmoku glazes with distinctive "oil spots" must require a combination of natural clays rich in iron, fused with something like wood ash. If cooled down quickly after baking, such a mixture is shot through with spots or streaks. But while a spotty glaze is the easiest thing in the world to obtain, the Temmoku glaze with a deep, dappled gleam is apparently one of the hardest. The secret of making it has been lost for about 750 years. Experimenting over the past few months with a variety of natural clays...