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...cool world of science, Chryssa's Gates, like many other neon artists' works, is just a flickering glimpse of what pure light sources may someday offer when incorporated into art. Rembrandt depended on sunlight to unmask his carefully constructed layers of color. The impressionists struggled to depict in dabs of oils the natural light that bounced off haystacks into their eyes. Tomorrow's artists may ladle their color, at 60 cycles per second, right out of the rainbow...
Nuclear Clout. In his eagerness to depict the nation's true strength, McNamara even made public such previously classified information as the fact that the number of warheads available to the Strategic Alert Force will have increased from 836 in 1961 to 2,600 by next June, with a tripling of megatonnage. His purpose in publishing such figures, he explained, was "simply to insure that none of us, friend or foe, miscalculates this nation's capability to fulfill its treaty commitments. I can't imagine anything more dangerous...
Police Cleanup. Germany's DEMAG steel company this year is sending out lithographs, some up to 150 years old, that depict 19th century ironmaking, and Bertelsmann, the Westphalian publishing house, will give hampers filled with Westphalian ham, pumpernickel and Steinhagen, a German gin. France's Banque Dupont will send a classic Eversharp desk set with two pens. Dujar-din, the cognac maker, is distributing an auto distress kit complete with blinking light. NK, Sweden's leading department store, sends out an LP record called "Music from Creative Sweden," while the Skandinaviska Bank distributes great straw plant baskets...
Schlesinger led what he called in his last work "the shift from 'drum and trumpet history' to 'the history of culture, the real history of men and women.'" In the book, In Retrospect: the History of a Historian, he defined social history as an effort to "grasp and depict both the inner and outer life of society and to integrate...
General plans for the Institute depict it as a four-to-six-week program with intensive seminars on important news areas, like Southeast Asia or the European Market. The first Institute will hopefully be held during the winter of 1966-67 for about 25 editors and publishers...