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...expedition, led by Hans Guggenheim, a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will try to solve the acute water shortage caused by a five-year drought by constructing water storage systems within the framework of traditional Mali technology, Guggenheim said...
...Guggenheim plans to build an aqueduct and reservoir system using already existing houses and other structures. Aqueducts from roof to roof will empty into infrequently used eight-foot high granaries...
...Guggenheim, who became concerned about the plight of the Dogon tribe in Mali during a trip there three years ago, has asked Everett I. Mendelsohn, chairman of the History of Science Department, to provide the names of three Harvard students who might go on the expedition. However, Guggenheim said that he will also consider applications from other students...
...Guggenheim Museum were five 6-ft.-long airplanes that had been painted with huge biomorphic swirls of red, yellow, blue and black by American Artist Alexander Colder...
...small, stooped, gnomelike figure working in his bare feet was French Artist Jean Dubuffet, 71. He was putting the last touches on his Coucou Bazar, an art-dance event using his own brightly colored cutouts, which will be presented along with his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. "I'm satisfied. Who else at my age can say he is satisfied?" Dubuffet chirruped. Moreover, he likes Manhattan, especially Wall Street, where one of his sculptures has been installed. Said he, relaxed as could be: "It is the solar plexus of the world. It is the heart where the blood comes...