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Syrian President Amin Hafez recently has been calling for war against Israel "at the earliest date." Such Arab threats-and Israeli counterthreats- have been heard before. Nevertheless, the water war seems to be heading for a showdown...
...UNION DEAD, by Robert Lowell. Less obscure than his earliest works and less embarrassingly confessional than his recent Life Studies, these poems pursue Lowell's preoccupation with creativity, madness, marriage and his Puritan heritage in tough, masculine verse...
...their U-235 and make it fission. Such a device is more effective than shooting two chunks of fissionable material toward each other in an apparatus like a gun barrel, as was done in the U.S. bomb exploded over Hiroshima. The U.S. also used the implosion method in its earliest nuclear weapons. Although a surprising number of commentators assumed that use of implosion showed advanced skill by the Chinese, the AEC did not agree. "The low yield of the test," it said, "coupled with other information obtained from the radioactive debris indicates that the technology of the device is that...
...selected by Curator Lawrence Alloway includes work by such senior draughtsmen as Gorky and Tobey, along with some by relative newcomers, including Larry Poons and Sven Lukin. A handsome historical precis of Albert Gleizes' offers the U.S. its first chance to review the work of one of the earliest cubists. The drawings run through Oct. 25, the Gleizes' show through...
...UNION DEAD, by Robert Lowell. Less obscure than his earliest works and less embarrassingly confessional than his recent Life Studies, these poems pursue Lowell's preoccupation with creativity, madness, marriage and his Puritan heritage in tough, masculine verse...