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...time to look, really look--and we see. When Anastasia washes body paint off her legs, the marijuana camera stops time to absorb the beauty of this motion still-life, the colors of paint and flesh, the dissolution of the paint in water, her wonderfully slow movements to the drawn-out Streetchoir music and lyrics...
...free. Twice they nudged it with the digger arm. No luck. All it did was swing a bit. Then they tried again, using the arm to steady the box against Surveyor and simultaneously pressing down. This time, success. The box descended to the lunar surface, and the crucial, drawn-out process of testing began. This week JPL will be sifting the first results relayed to earth from...
...will to withstand Communist depredations in Southeast Asia-or anywhere else. By all means, let's cop out on all those ungrateful Vietnamese. Especially, let's cop out on all our splendid young who went right on dying and getting mutiiated while we sat here savoring the drawn-out luxury of changing our minds. Then we can all get back to our color TVs and walnut-paneled cabin cruisers or, if we're the artistic type, our pornographic literature and our underground movies...
...declining the Harvard Undergraduate Council's rather harmless request for a meeting last week, the Committee on Houses has predictably stirred up exactly the sort of drawn-out discussion it wished to avoid. Dean Ford, acting as spokesman for the Committee, said its members were sick of the parictals issue; so, without a doubt, is every other member of this community...
During his drawn-out court-martial on charges of military misconduct, Captain Howard Brett Levy and his attorney have spiced the otherwise routine trial with dark hints that U.S. Special Forces in Viet Nam were guilty of war crimes as heinous as any condemned at Nurnberg two decades ago (TIME, May 26). Last week, in an unexpectedly bold move, the Army court allowed Levy's attorney to wage the first "Nurnberg defense" in a U.S. court-martial. To the surprise of almost no one, it failed dismally...