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...actual examples of a libertarian society in action, although he suggests that the Founding Fathers thought along somewhat libertarian lines and implemented many libertarian principles when they designed American government. The only attempt to set up a totally libertarian world occurred when a group of libertarians claimed a coral reef in the Pacific as their own nation, with hopes of filling in enough land to establish a tiny island-nation where a libertarian paradise could reign. Their hopes were demolished when an envoy of angry tribesmen from a nearby island informed them that the island was already their property...
Died. William J. Sparks, 71, co-inventor of butyl rubber and the holder of 145 patents; after a long illness; in Coral Gables, Fla. Joining the Standard Oil Co. (now Exxon) in 1936 as a research chemist, he soon helped develop the synthetic rubber so vital to Allied forces during World War II. Sparks often expressed his concern that young scientists be taught an obligation to society. Said he: "Science without purpose is an art without responsibility...
Died. Lars Onsager, 72, longtime Yale chemistry professor whose work on heat transfer, now known as the fourth law of thermodynamics, won him the 1968 Nobel Prize; of a heart attack; in Coral Gables, Fla. Before World War II, Onsager proposed a gaseous diffusion process to produce the rare uranium isotope needed to construct the atomic bomb; it js now the standard method used to manufacture uranium...
...Arts. One, "Paintings by New England Provincial Artists, 1775-1800," organized by Art Historian Nina Fletcher Little, illustrates the limner tradition with 76 paintings by 34 artists, backed up with domestic objects of the sort that appears in those stiff, poignant effigies-chairs, painted floorcloths, a child's coral-garnished silver whistle. The other show, "Copley, Stuart, West," deals with the first three American-born painters to escape from this matrix and enter the European arena in order to become, in the full sense of the word, professional artists...
...mowing lawns. He is the kind of man who likes to take an intellectual interest in his work. He enrolled in a course in agronomy at Broward Community College, even earned a degree. Now 59, callused and deeply tanned, he is assistant superintendent at the Riviera Golf Club in Coral Gables. He rides a tractor and sprays insecticides...