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...appendages-to swim away from it. But if something attractive is placed near by-say, the sugar, glucose-it will move toward it. How the bacterium chooses its direction is still not fully understood, but it apparently makes its way on a trial-and-error basis. Tumbling to and fro, it senses that taking certain directions increases the strength of a favorable stimulus (or decreases that of an unfavorable one), and it moves accordingly each time...
Freshman Justice William Rehnquist thought it would be safe to rent a beach-front condominium in Delaware for two weeks early this summer. Then he found himself spending most of his time driving to and fro between the seashore and Washington, D.C. "Out of the two weeks," he says, "I think I got to spend five days at the beach." Justice Potter Stewart escaped to a fishing lodge in New Hampshire, but he has to telephone his office every day-and keep reading. "We'll get about 800 cert petitions* through the summer," he says...
Like his show, the tall Swedish-American with the potato nose and ice-bag hat jets to and fro between Los Angeles, Stockholm, London. In New York his studio is appropriately gargantuan, consisting of two connected five-story warehouses with an elevator so large that Oldenburg is proposing to furnish it as his living room. He has become, in effect, his own museum: a traveling exhibit, documented and catalogued and spewing out work with minatory gusto...
...platform, Hoving and the civic dignitaries droned out their genial platitudes while Vaillancourt waded to and fro beneath them, imprinting more QUEBEC LIBRES on his fountain. Now and then, he advanced to the mikes and cameras at the pool's rim to explain in loud and broken English his rage at "compromises," which, he claimed, Halprin and the Redevelopment Agency had pressed on him. Defacement? "I am not defacing my sculpture." Did he repudiate it? "No, no. It's a joy to make a free statement. This fountain is dedicated to all freedom. Free Quebec! Free East Pakistan...
...Springtime in the Hub, time for long walks with your sweetheart, picnics under a flowing willow tree, or throwing a frisbec to and fro. These are the rites of Spring, which Mother Nature's children return to year after year...