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...FLETCHER NEWTON...
America's sense of isolation and distance, and the effort needed to overcome it, is the theme of two delightful shows that opened last week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. One, "Paintings by New England Provincial Artists, 1775-1800," organized by Art Historian Nina Fletcher Little, illustrates the limner tradition with 76 paintings by 34 artists, backed up with domestic objects of the sort that appears in those stiff, poignant effigies-chairs, painted floorcloths, a child's coral-garnished silver whistle. The other show, "Copley, Stuart, West," deals with the first three American-born painters...
Descent Path. So pervasive is the notion of life on Mars that even the most skeptical scientists at J.P.L.'s mission control last week could not help being caught up in the mounting excitement about the Viking landing. Said NASA Director James Fletcher: "Can you imagine the tension building as we wait for the first pictures from the Mars surface? What will we see? Those odd, vertical upthrusts of rock we've detected on radar maps, or something like an eye peering back at us? It's all very exciting...
Life Forms. It is possible - but not very likely - that these first pictures could dramatically show that there indeed is or was life on Mars. Shots of Fletcher's "eye"- or a scraggly plant or an obvious fossil- would provide instant and sensational evidence that might forever change man's view of himself, his world and the universe. In fact, Sagan and Stanford University Geneticist Joshua Lederberg have suggested that large organisms could have evolved in the cold and arid environment of Mars. Because a big animal has less surface area in relation to its volume than...
...suspension be ended. We further demand that a detailed investigation be carried out by responsible, representative union, community and administrative officials to determine to what degree discrimination in discipline is in evidence. If this investigation uncovers substantive evidence, then we demand that corrective steps be instituted immediately. William G. Fletcher '76 For the Task Force on Affirmative Action