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...Andy: "It reminded me of those Early-American flatiron weather vanes." This work, unlike most, belongs to the artist's own collection-permanently. Since Betsy, an ebullient woman of 45, reminds the artist of her mother, he named the painting, which has the quality of universal womanhood, to encompass two generations...
...does the hall. Designed by the Texas firm of Caudill Rowlett Scott, architects for Harvard's Roy Edward Larsen Hall (TIME, Jan. 21) and the A.I.A. Award-winning Brazos County Courthouse in Texas, it stands foursquare with the city grid on the exterior, turns curvy inside to encompass a seashell-shaped auditorium. Says William Caudill: "There were 61 people involved with the job and they worked 13¾ man-years." To make sure that the acoustics would prove a ringing success, the ceiling is composed of 870 acoustical "lenses" that can be raised or lowered to tune the hall...
...medicine has had profound effects upon the practice of medicine. First, it has encouraged specialization by the physician, and according to the Coggeshall report the choice of over 88 per cent of new physicians is to enter specialized practice. The reason is obvious. It is far easier to encompass a special field of medicine than the totality of medical knowledge, and there is the opportunity to make an effort to keep up with advances in the field...
...deprived and backward countries of the world-the "hungering half of the human race," whose "mounting frustrations are likely to fester into eruptions of violence and extremism." Said McNamara: "Security is not military hardware-though it may include it. Security is not traditional military activity-though it may encompass it. Security is development. If security implies anything, it implies a minimal measure of order and stability...
...there is no agreement about the type of reform needed. Some wish to abolish the draft altogether, replacing it with either a professional army or nothing at all. Others support the concept of universal service, which would encompass a whole range of military and non-military programs. While such "total" solutions have their merits, discussion of them should be postponed. Abolition of the draft and universalization of the draft would both require truly massive bureaucratic alterations. Congress would understandably hesitate to ask such changes from a military establishment already occupied with other matters. The Selective Service System should be reformed...