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...will become a mere Oberkommissär, or first-class commissioner. A Polizeisanitätskommissar (police health commissioner) will be reduced to just plain Kommissär, while a Kellereiinspektor (inspector of state wine cellars) will henceforth be known only as an Amtsrat, or office counselor. In a curious bow to tradition, Austria's 100 Wirkliche Hofräte (real court counselors), who are assistant secretaries in ministries, will be demoted only to the rank of Hofrat (court counselor) -even though no imperial court has existed in Austria for 60 years...
This walkin, environmental sculpture took 13 years to complete. It is the most ambitious of all her wooden constructions. The title suggests a brief bow in the direction of another, and earlier, image of night and silence: Giacometti's The Palace at 4 a.m., 1932-33, one of the canonical sculptures of surrealism. But Giacometti's palace was the size of a doll's house. Nevelson's work-almost 12 ft. high, 20 ft. wide, and 15 ft. deep-is actually domestic (if not palatial) in size, a place one can move into. It is both...
...Cost of a Risk-Free Society" will be the topic of a discussion by Fred Singer, a University of Virginia professor, at 4:15 p.m. at 9 Bow Street...
Everett Cherrington Hughes--Cambridge Forum, 8 Church Street, at 8 p.m. "The Cost of a Risk-Force Society"-- 9 Bow Street at 4:15 p.m. Sterling Stuckey--77 Dunster Street at 7:30 J. Woodland Hastings--Science Center B at 8 p.m. The Writer and Society--Boston Public Library...
...compared with 151 in 1976. Some of the speeches, too, were steelier. The mighty bash-televised live throughout the Soviet Union-opened with a blunt address by Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. Standing in subfreezing weather, with his Politburo colleagues, atop Lenin's mausoleum, Ustinov, 69, made the obligatory bow to "the struggle for peace, détente and disarmament," then launched into vigorous affirmation of Moscow's determination "to further strengthen our armed capabilities" so that no potential foe "will risk violating our peaceful lives...