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...jumper" because he has never been injured in 15 years of competition. Crowds of up to 135,000 turn out to watch him make like a bird. He is a national hero in Norway, where his biography is a bestseller, and in Austria children mimic his style on tiny backyard ski jumps-the one who jumps farthest gets to call himself Toralf Engan all day long...
Columnist Charles Allbright of Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette recently recorded this conversation with his six-year-old daughter. But many parents across the U.S. would find Allbright's dilemma familiar. Other backyard echoes of "Bang, bang, the Russians are going to kill you," and "The snow is poisoned" have inspired the National Institute of Mental Health to cooperate with the Child Study Association of America in putting out a guide for parents: Children and the Threat of Nuclear War (available from the Association...
...work was wellpublicized, but it was done during the great Depression, when little cash was available to encourage scientific enterprise. Only a single radio ham, Grote Reber of Wheaton, Ill., followed Jansky's lead. Working alone, Reber built a dish antenna 31 ft. in diameter in his own backyard. With it he made the extraordinary discovery that the sky is full of radio stars that have nothing to do with ordinary stars. Reber had opened wide the radio window on the sky. His crude radio telescope, the world's first. now stands at the entrance of the National...
...credit for that goes to Martha Jackson, the most deceptively scatterbrained dealer in the business. In between shows of her soberer artists such as John Hultberg, Paul Jenkins and the Spaniard Tapies, she has turned her gallery over to "happenings" and "environments," once even allowed her entire backyard to be filled with tires in the name of art. She could well be called the bridge between the established abstractionists and the new wave that the Castelli Gallery and later the Green, Stone and Stable galleries have encouraged...
...Texas A. & M., where he earned a master's degree in landscape architecture, then spent four years at General Electric's lamp headquarters in Cleveland. For the past five years his headquarters has been Dallas, where he lives alone in a small, painting-filled house with a backyard garden that serves as his sample room...