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...writing books and plays. After a show of his labyrinths at London's prestigious Institute of Contemporary Arts this fall, he plans to sell framed reproductions of his designs. Recently he toyed with the idea of an "ultimate" or "life-or-death" maze. He would have to construct it, says Bright, at either the North or South Pole and would use a heated tool to carve up blocks of polar ice for his walls. "Someone entering it," he notes cheerfully, "would have to get out quickly or die of exposure...
...reunifying China after more than a decade of debilitating fragmentation, Chiang performed a critical service for the nation, one that paved the way for greater centralization under the Communists. But in the final analysis, given the scope of his problems, it is not surprising that he was unable to construct a durable political system. "In great things," Erasmus once wrote, "it is enough to have tried." Chiang's try was on a grand scale. His failure in the end diminishes but should not obscure his historical importance...
...rally in Lisbon's bullring. Scares declared pointedly, "We want to construct a socialist society in Portugal with respect for liberty, not copied after foreign models - neither Russian nor Swedish nor Chinese but Portuguese." And at another rally, in Coimbra, he told several thousand followers, "The people have a right to know if an authentic democracy is to be established; or is it to turn into a dictatorship...
With those plans in hand, Hughes' men sought out builders. They engaged the respected Los Angeles-based firm of Global Marine Inc. to supervise the construction of the ship and chose the Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. to construct the ship, which was to be christened the Glomar Explorer. The barge, designated the HMB-1, was constructed by the National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. in San Diego. While the ships were abuilding, the Hughes people, who normally are noncommittal, delighted in spreading stories about Hughes' deep-sea-mining plans. Everyone, including TIME (July 29), accepted Hughes' account...
...canceled in midseason, not long before Cher rose into Nielsen's top ten. If sexual politics is not Mom's bag, then she can sit back and relax while enjoying the fashion show and some mildly envious fantasies about the corps of hairdressers and beauticians required to construct such a perfect example of feminine artifice...