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...from the street below what appeared to be a rifle barrel protruding from the sixth-floor window an instant after the shots. Three employees watching from a window directly below heard the shots from overhead. Oswald's rifle (traced to him through his writing on the mail-order blank) was found near the sixth-floor window; so were three cartridges that experts proved had been fired by his rifle. Tests proved that cotton fibers snagged on the rifle matched the shirt Oswald was wearing that day. Bullet fragments found in the President's car came from Oswald...
...hardly the Mayflower; yet in front of Phillip's molting, motley crew stretched a continent as vast and varied as the United States, its interior a "ghastly blank" of alkaline deserts, its outer rim a sun-bleached jawbone of barrier reefs and ragged mountains. Last week, as computers in Sydney and Canberra digested the raw data of Australia's 13th census in 178 years, it was clear that the ghastly blank was far from filled-and that for many a ruggedly individualistic cobber the ghastliest blank of all is a government census form...
VICTOR H. BLANK Woonsocket...
...Frankfurt, a frontiersman named Timm Ulrichs put himself on view in a glass box, along with his school diploma, vaccination certificate and other personal documents. Manhattan's Leo Castelli Gallery put on a one-man show titled "Store Fronts," which is all they were: a row of fullscale, blank and well-lighted store fronts made of metal with Plexiglas windows backed by brown wrapping paper. The artist is a 30-year-old Bulgarian escapee from Soviet Realism named Christo, who has lived in New York since...
...oblique approach, he says, to avoid the Judaic religious restrictions on graven images. "In flux, one cannot perceive reality, but only a part of it," he says. As a result, his works may not stand alone impressively enough as masterpieces, but they seem a magnificently practical way to transform blank-walled, vast public wastelands and enormous rooms into lively and provocative architectural gardens...