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...gates of Paradise." All Florentines of the 1450s agreed that their Baptistery's portal sculpted by Lorenzo Ghiberti, was worthy of immortality. The double doors, 16 ft. by 9 ft., cast of bronze and overlaid with gold, held ten panels that told Old Testament tales in such grace ful relief that the metal seemed brushed on like oils...
...William Steinberg is a threat to American musical tradition. For one thing, he is downright chummy with his Pittsburgh Symphony musicians. For another, he blatantly delights in performing "the music nobody wants to play, nobody wants to conduct and nobody wants to hear." The traditional image of the success ful symphony conductor is a shaggy-haired despot who rules with an iron fist and remains disdainfully aloof at all times. But Steinberg treats his musicians with courtesy and respect, regales them with a rich sense of humor, rides in the bus with them on tour, and preaches such heresies...
...race prejudice. In a cliché scene that emphasizes the childlike purity of their love, the couple romp in the park playing tag and hopscotch, and steal their first kiss at the foot of the Civil War memorial. Once married, they move out to the farm with his wonder ful parents, soon have a baby brother for little Ellen Mary. It is an idyllic existence. Too idyllic, perhaps, for it is a world created to serve the plot-a happy, integrated limbo unsullied by social pressures until Julie's worthless first husband reappears, armed with a giant Teddy bear...
Jimmy Clark's curiosity takes an aw ful lot of satisfying. At 28, he is the youngest Grand Prix champion in history, and his income runs to $140,000 a year. Yet there he was last week, seeing how fast he could drive an untested car on a rain-drenched track outside Stuttgart, Germany-in something called the Solitude Grand Prix. The prize was far from grand-no championship points, no money to speak of (winner's purse: $1,500)-but Scotland's Clark still turned the afternoon into a breath-taking demonstration of his driving genius...
...insemination in both animals and humans, they seemed within possible reach of an exciting goal: selection of the sex of an infant before conception. But how to separate sperm that produce female offspring from those that produce males? Various methods, such as the use of electric fields or care ful temperature control, produced only minimal results. Then, in India, Zoologist Bhairab Chandra Bhattacharya noticed that the upper portion of a sperm sample tended to breed more bulls; the lower portion gave more cows. Apparently this was because the sperm that produce female offspring are heavier than those that produce males...