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...relic was placed on the lead float of a mile-long procession, which began a parade through the city while flocks of pigeons and sparrows were released from cages.* Also swirling overhead: thousands of round paper disks representing Buddha's "wheel of life," air-dropped by chartered Cessna. Lining the parade route, sustaining themselves on peanuts, soda pop and peppered fish sticks, were 250,000 spectators. As the Buddhists celebrated the 2,508th year of Buddha's birth and the first anniversary of their successful campaign against President Ngo Dinh Diem, they plainly showed themselves a growing force...
...Arizona mostly to soothe a severe case of arthritis. Yet his parched art now appears as if it were formed solely in the spread-eagle landscape, the quartz-clear air, and the human isolation of a land where nature seems with out scale. The figures in his paintings float like mirages, their pinpoint eyes sad as those of pedestrians in hell...
PETER LANYON-Viviano, 42 East 57th. "If you go to St. Ives you will notice the blue," says Lanyon of his English birthplace and home, and if you go to see his paintings you will too. Lanyon likes to float low in his glider, a vantage point that wins him curious perspectives: Lake looks like a rubber life raft filled with water, North East seems to offer a view right through a terrace table, and Spring Coast is a maze of curves and curlicues in phosphorescent green and fresh red. Through...
...value of the vacuum to industry lies in the fact that materials act differently when not surrounded by air than they do when surrounded by it. In a vacuum, atoms of gas in any material float away because they are unobstructed by air pressure. Last week U.S. Steel announced that it will build a giant vacuum "degasser," similar to one already at Jones & Laughlin, that releases contaminating gases from hundreds of tons of molten steel in minutes. Result: steel with so few harmful impurities that castings made from it for automobiles last 25% longer...
Rocks for N.A.A.C.P. The adverse reaction is all too visible. In a Boston St. Patrick's Day parade, an N.A.A.C.P. float bearing the slogan, FROM THE FIGHT FOR IRISH FREEDOM TO THE FIGHT FOR U.S. EQUALITY, was pelted with rocks, eggs, beer cans and vegetables. When Roman Catholic pastors in Michigan read from their pulpits a pro-civil rights statement, members of a Catholic Laymen's League stood outside the doors of 52 churches, passed out some 100,000 leaflets denouncing the civil rights bill...