Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That great big hole in the ground near Kimberley gives Harry Oppenheimer, 58, chairman of the board of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., a leeway of personal expression unknown to most South Africans. Taking on the additional job of chancellor of multiracial Cape Town University, which numbers 266 blacks and Coloreds among its 6,392 students, the powerful diamond king coolly defended "the right of the university to run its own affairs"-despite the Vorster government's intensified campaign to force apartheid in all campus extracurricular activities. Said Oppenheimer: "What is the use of a civilization...
Belgium's Paul Van Hoeydonck, 41, is another artist who finds "Cape Kennedy the most romantic place on earth." His subject, too, is space. To depict it, he has abandoned pure painting in favor of white-on-white bas-reliefs made of discarded department-store mannequins, pingpong balls, electronic gadgets and gizmos. He paints them all pure white, he explains, "because white symbolizes infinity and mystery...
...binoculars, a copy of Roger Tory Peterson's A Field Guide to the Birds, and a car to enable them to cover a greater variety of habitats quickly. Thus, beginning at dawn, 20 members of Florida's Pelican Island Audubon Society raced through the boondocks south of Cape Kennedy to cover a 15-mile-wide circle of fresh-water marshes, piny woods and citrus groves; whenever their cars stopped, their binoculars popped up and down like yo-yos. They quit early at dusk, satisfied at having spotted 129 species, including such rarities as the upland plover...
...with a certain alienated majesty." Hopper was a genius of this kind; he painted not only what Americans have seen from the corners of their eyes, but what they have dimly thought and felt about it. People sitting on porches or by windows, the silent, sun-drenched Cape Cod houses or rows of blank-faced Manhattan store fronts on an early Sunday morning-all are vignettes glimpsed and pondered by a reflective traveler...
Cheaper in Clusters. Instead of monolithic developments, Levitt today has eleven neighborhood-size communities of varied styles and prices ($16,000 to $33,000) rising from Long Island to Cape Kennedy-plus operations in Puerto Rico and France. Last month he broke ground for subdivisions near Baltimore and Chicago, the latter his first venture in the Midwest. Earlier this year, he started the first of a contemplated chain of ten home-furnishing stores called Levittmark, Inc., at his Willingboro, N.J., development, 15 miles from Philadelphia. Two weeks ago at Willingboro, he opened his first colony of town houses-today...