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...Chicago, which has already logged more incidents this year than in all of 1960, is not alone among Northern cities with its growing tension. Detroit is edgily watching interracial efforts to integrate a suburban swimming pool. And in New York one humid night last week, 60 silent members of a gang that calls itself the Harlem Lords marched across a Harlem River bridge for a rumble in The Bronx. Armed with linoleum knives, lengths of pipe and baling hooks, they warmed up by attacking 20 pedestrians. They were finally stopped by two policemen who held them back with drawn pistols...
Electrical Circuit. Whether he is describing a character who is "ugly as a humid day" or a place that is "humming with imbeciles," Arthur Kopit is indeed a writer, and the appeal of his work is in the cutting edge of authenticity with which he hacks his way through phony jungles. Personally soft-spoken and completely unaffected, Kopit is the son of a jewelry salesman, grew up in Lawrence, Long Island. At Harvard on a scholarship, he majored in engineering and learned his playwrighting in the Dunster House Drama Workshop. If his material is bizarre, it is designed with...
HANOVER, N.H., May 13--Paced by hard-hitting midfielder Pete Sieglaff, the varsity lacrosse team plowed through a hot, humid afternoon to overcome Dartmouth 10 to 8 today...
...took two more days of fever, coughing, sore throat and painful eyes before Carolyn Diehl got alarmed enough to call in another doctor. He prescribed an antibiotic (tetracycline) to guard against a second, bacterial infection, and an antihistaminic (Chlor-Trimeton), and told her to breathe humid air as much as possible. She did-by sitting in a rocking chair next to a hot shower for half an hour at a stretch. Her son Marc, 6, came down with a similar but milder case; mother and son shared a room, with three croup kettles steaming through the night...
Because of Thailand's humid climate, few paintings have survived, but the sculpture is more than sufficient to show the paradoxical versatility of Thailand's artists. The bronze Bodhisattva (see color) is a masterpiece of intricate workmanship; the lithe little dancing figure, who was meant both to protect and entertain Buddha, bends solemnly to the tinkle of music. The Buddhas that the artists made usually hewed to a perfect blending of art and tradition. Buddha's legs, tradition said, were to be like those of a deer, his thighs like the stems of banana trees, his hands...