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...magazine's piece was that Michigan State, while running a big, U.S.-financed project to train Viet Nam's fledgling police forces from 1955 on, provided cover for five CIA agents. On that, everybody concurred-but on precious little besides. Among Ramparts' other natterings: the cloak-and-dagger men, though supposedly assigned to teach the police administration techniques, were actually under orders "to engage in counterespionage and counterintelligence"; M.S.U. raked in $25 million in seven years before Premier Ngo Dinh Diem canceled its contract; the university "actually supplied" the Vietnamese "with guns and ammunition." The gravest accusation...
...gestures, are close kin to flesh and blood. Subtly but simply, the artist has divided his composition in two: at right, the blue haze dissolves into atmospheric depth; while at left, the leafy, lemon-bearing latticework seems to push the Madonna's arm forward. The artist flips her cloak inside out to balance the push and pull between foreground and background, playing its green lining against distant hills, its blue surface against the trellis...
Inflamed Glands. Getting firm answers to such questions called for some cloak-and-dagger work. To guard against starting a panic when 13 of the St. George youngsters with the most prominent nodules were put into the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, there was no publicity...
...arrived at London's Royal College of Art, he says, he found his solution in electric colors. While experimenting with them, Apple learned to make highlights by bathing bronze objects in neon. The bronze tints are erased and only the fluid splash of reflected neon remains like a cloak of many colors...
...fashion could be worn, as one U.S. buyer put it, "only on top of an elephant in the Barnum & Bailey Circus." Today, with more informal living, chances are excellent that many a young thing this summer will flutter about in wide drapery harem pants, try slinging her hooded Arab cloak over her bead-necklace top and hip-hugging pants. And for those who expect to fall, or be thrown, into a pool, there is' an evening bathing suit with a top that is just a halter of beads...