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...Image Is Primary. Although devoid of specific subject matter, Young-erman's paintings are usually symmetrical, fraught with enigmatic suggestions of plant and animal shapes, the rhythm of waves and the exuberance of flame. To many, his work suggests a latter-day Georgia O'Keeffe. Like her, he is attracted to "organic form, relating to living things in general." He will occasionally sketch leaves, is fascinated by color photographs of fish and Oriental paintings of insects. But picking up a wineglass in his studio, he says, "This doesn't interest me as a form...
...fire began in a pan of wax which someone was melting over a hot plate, Mrs. Jo J. Heunemann, dorm resident, said yesterday. The burner was left on overnight, and the wax burst into flame, she added. A wall beside the hot plate was charred, but the fire activated the sprinkler system before any further damage was done...
...Seas of Flame. After a few days' lull, the Israelis struck back. Answering an artillery barrage against two border kibbutzim, Israeli guns opened up along a 60-mile front extending from Jericho to the Sea of Galilee. Massed in advance for the attack, howitzers, heavy mortars and tanks pounded Jordanian positions with merciless accuracy. The Arabs brought up reinforcements and pounded back, turning great patches of Israeli farm land into rolling seas of flame. Then the Israelis called out their air force. For nearly seven hours, squadrons of jet fighter-bombers dumped rockets, phosphorus bombs and napalm...
...When the flame is lit this week for the 10th Winter Olympics at Grenoble, France, TV will carry the Games to 200 million people around the world. One sport and one athlete will dominate everyone's attention. The sport is Alpine skiing-with its hurtling downhill races and snow-spraying slaloms. The athlete is France's Jean-Claude Killy, an innkeeper's son from Val d'Isère in the French Alps, whose élan and ebullience have made him an almost legendary figure...
...suddenly forced to return to the orbiting mother ship, controllers again fired the descent engine. While it was burning, they also fired the 3,500-lb.-thrust ascent engine, which will be used to lift the astronauts off the surface of the moon. Blasting its flame directly into a depression atop LM's descent stage, the engine separated the ascent stage-consisting of the ascent engine and the two-man LM cockpit-and pulled it away from the descent stage. In one final burn, controllers fired the ascent engine for 6½ minutes before its fuel supply...