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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BRAVO PICASSO! (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Documenting the artist's life and work with a massive display of canvases and sculptures, some seen via satellite from Paris' Grand Palais and Petit Palais exhibits...
Kenyan Fragments. But in the early 1960s, a rare display of unity among anthropologists convinced Leakey that he had better reevaluate the classification of certain fossil bones. Most of his colleagues had become persuaded, Leakey says, that a collection of bone and teeth fragments he had found under a Kenya farm in 1961 and other fragments discovered in 1934 in the foothills of the Himalayas represented similar species of manlike beings that lived between 10 million and 14 million years ago-in the Upper Miocene. In the hopes of finding their ancestors, Leakey in 1965 began a search of museum...
Freaks on Display. Though ineligible to be card-carrying Communists, the changeling capitalists were even allowed their own state-tolerated political organization, known as the Democratic Party. After so many years with the Red Dragon, the changelings have become more chameleons than capitalists. Increasingly less important as managers, they remain, Richman says, valuable as "freaks put on display for the local population as well as for visiting foreigners." Wu still keeps his family, servants and Jaguar in East Shanghai, but quietly banks most of his income (at 3.3% interest) in a conscious effort at inconspicuous consumption. Japanese newsmen who visited...
...Lonely Boy. In Markings, Hammarskjold poured out the "true colors" that he was never able to display publicly. Van Dusen finds the explanation in a singularly unhappy childhood. Hammarskjold worshiped his gentle, pious Lutheran mother, from whom he received a conventional religious upbringing. He admired, yet feared, and perhaps hated his stern disciplinarian father, who was Sweden's Prime Minister from 1914 to 1917. As he worked his way through the ranks of his country's civil service, the brooding, lonely man often contemplated suicide. "My life," he wrote darkly, "is worse than death...
...contest will afford display of an encyclopedic range of talents. There will be four categories of judging: for the stayers, duration aloft; for the ambitious, distance flown; for the showy, aerobatics; and for the aesthetes, Origami (Japanese paper-folding...