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Sometime before the end of January, President Johnson will decide the fate of this year's 550,000 male college graduates and first-year graduate students. The instrument of his decision will be the draft, and the problems it faces him with are complex. He will have to decide which graduate students to defer whether to induct the oldest or the youngest first, and how to select the 300,000 draftees from an eligible pool of more than one million. Neither official nor unofficial Washington knows what the President will decide, but there are already some clear indications of what...
...before curtain time, men and women in blue jeans and work shirts began walking slowly, slowly onto the curtainless stage of Paris' Theatre National Populaire. There they stood or sat, meditatively waiting. At 8:30, Indian Musician Nageswara Rao appeared, carrying his vina - a long, gourd-based stringed instrument, much like the sitar popularized by Ravi Shankar and Beatle George Harrison. For a quarter of an hour, the vina mewed and whinnied while no one moved. Then things began to come to life...
...Stanford is no more pedantic than he has to be in discussing media, periods and styles. Perhaps unnecessarily he points out that "the common lead pencil is misnamed, for it is made of graphite, a crystalline form of carbon having a greasy texture." It is also a slippery instrument in the hands of those who take drawing as lightly as it is taken today. Drawing has had its great days-the Renaissance, the 18th and 19th centuries -but it is impossible to doubt that the pop art of, say, Roy Lichtenstein (b. 1923) represents anything but a descent from...
...heart has been visualized without surgery once before by the use of a rigid stainless steel rod also introduced through the blood vessels. But the rigidity of this instrument made it difficult to manipulate. It was unable to pass through the variety of valves, blood vessels and chambers that the flexible fiber optics system can, Dr. Gamble said...
...instrument has only been tried on animals, Dr. Gamble said. None of them have been harmed, but he will continue testing. "I have to have a system that will do more good than harm to patients before I try it on them. I have to have a system that really works," he said...