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...family of fossil hunters in East Africa. After more than 30 years, the Leakeys have made such finds as Zinjanthropus, a manlike creature believed to have lived 1,750,000 years ago, and the 2,000,000-year-old Homo habilis, who was found among some of the earliest signs of "culture," and is believed to be a direct ancestor of modern...
...earliest antecedents of this breakdown of the spatial illusion in painting are the pointillist pictures of the late nineteenth century -- particularly Seurat and Signac. They tried to break down the illusion of space by treating the frame with the same minute dots of color which cover the background of the pointillist canvas. As a result, the frame fuses with the canvas, giving the impression of no frame...
...girls and a few little dogs and stray children collected at the Radcliffe Field House behind Holmes Hall. There they heard Diane K. McGuire, landscape-architect for the entire project, speak of deep-planted daffodils, tulips with predictably Dutch names, and blue chinadoxes which bloom, T.S. Eliot notwithstanding, in earliest April. With spoons and spades they went off to scratch the ground...
...Metropolitan Museum, are being put on exhibition. Part of a ten-work cycle portraying scenes from Roman history,*they were painted for the Ca' Dolfin in Venice some time be tween 1725 and 1730, when Tiepolo was barely 30 years old. Standing between the gloomy realism of his earliest canvases and the lyrical idealism that made his later ceilings look like heaven itself, the paintings help explain Tiepolo's immediate success...
...borrowing pressures, Johnson promised-and Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler promptly acted-to limit sales of certain kinds of federal securities, in order to "eliminate from the market as much federal demand for funds as possible." The President also asked the Federal Reserve Board and commercial banks to "seize the earliest opportunity" to reduce interest rates paid by borrowers-currently 6% for prime customers of major U.S. banks. As for interest rates paid to depositors, an Administration-backed bill giving the Federal Reserve Board and other regulatory agencies discretionary power to impose interest ceilings sailed through the House last week...