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During the Tet offensive in February, 1968, Dr. Nelson was captured by the NLF and held prisoner in the mountains around Hue for two months...
...colors." With professional help from Mitch Miller, Leontyne Price and the cast of Hair, lung power for the coalition chorus was supplied by Ed Sullivan, Arthur Goldberg, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bunche, Chet Huntley, John D. Rockefeller III, Johnny Carson and nearly 100 other distinguished Americans of every hue and hairstyle. All the group needs now is a title. The Urbanes...
...structuring color into definite geometric shapes, Minimal Artists give color the permanent stability it lacks in the impressionistic canvases of Olitsky. The smooth unmodulated hue of their minimal works pulls the canvas to an unprecedented flatness. The extensive steady tones glare outwards without suggesting any space for the eye to travel. Though it is difficult to conceive of a flatter picture, it is almost impossible not to see a special relationship between any two colors placed on the same surface. In their simplicity, the chevrons of Noland, thrust across the canvas, are impossible to forget. As the painted surfaces become...
...lunar rock were delivered by midweek to eager scientists at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL). Although a thick coat of clinging dust prevented immediate detailed observation, geologists could see that several of the rocks were igneous-formed out of molten material like lava. They were also of a lighter hue than the brownish gray Apollo 11 rocks from the Sea of Tranquility-and much larger. The biggest of these "grapefruits," as Conrad had called them, weighed as much as four pounds and were about six inches long and five inches wide. Said a pleased Dan Anderson, curator...
...refused to come. Colorado's Peter Dominick is still seething over a contretemps with a second-echelon Treasury Department official, and even Karl Mundt of South Dakota-a staunch Nixon loyalist-complains of the "remoteness" of Administration staffers. The President himself angered many Republican Senators of every political hue. They could rarely...