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...earliest shaped-canvases in this exhibition reveal that Stella first cut out rectangular pieces from the edges of the painting. Rows of white pinstripes repeat the pattern of the sides. He coats the picture with a uniform quiet color-maroon, grey, or often black. And by evenly covering the whole surface, the thin stripes emphasize the outer shape. One of these canvases runs its zigzag olive green surface 23 feet along the wall. Here Stella plays with shadowed color that makes the stripes seem to move in three dimensional space as well as on the flat surface...
...three fuel cells, which produce the bulk of the command module's vital electrical power. It quickly became obvious that a moon landing was now out of the question; mission rules forbid a lunar landing if even one fuel cell becomes inoperative. The loss of two requires the earliest possible return to earth. Even worse, the second oxygen tank was now also rapidly spilling its precious cargo. Unless the venting could be stopped, there would soon be insufficient oxygen aboard Odyssey. Oxygen was essential not only for breathing; it would also be needed to react with hydrogen to produce power...
...years, the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides are the most scrupulously exact and eloquently moving accounts that Western man possesses of the nature of his destiny. Aeschylus' The Persians, which has been revived at Manhattan's St. George's Church, is one of the earliest of these tragedies (472 B.C.). Set before the tomb of Darius the Great shortly after the Battle of Salamis, in which the Persians were crushingly defeated by the Athenians, the play is a spoken song of lamentations, a threnody for the cruelly spent valor of Persia's princes...
...lunar craft must circle the moon before the astronauts can start back to earth. At the earliest, Apollo 13 will start its return trip at 9:40 p.m. tonight and splash down at 1:20 p.m. Friday afternoon if everything goes right...
Richie Szaro and Frank Champi got their earliest starts ever in the javelin, and responded with heaves of 230 and 249 feet. "The good thing about competing rather than just practicing during the spring is that the guys are able to get used to throwing in competition," Stowell said...