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Closing the Vise. The H13 chopper was routinely inspecting the lacework of dikes and mangrove swamps controlled by the Viet Cong since the early 1960s, when red tracers lanced up and dropped the two-seater into a paddy like a stunned moth. Two larger Hueys, bristling with rockets and M-60 machine guns, came to the rescue almost at once. If the Viet Cong had lain low while the Hueys picked up the downed H13 crew, they might still have escaped the bother that was soon to follow. In stead the Reds shot down the Hueys too, and the gauntlet...
...quarters Poussin's Sabine women are abducted in the passionless postures of French neoclassic actors. Through another doorway the visitor is delivered into 18th century England, attended by four Gainsboroughs, three Reynolds portraits, a Romney, and a dozen other chamois-cheeked countenances that peer down, mellow within their lacework gilt frames, between ornate black marble period fireplaces...
...like surrealism, but more divine images receive less than medieval veneration. Christ's birth and infancy are treated with the tenderness of an uncle. The artist took his greatest liberties in the borders of his illuminations. There he imitates a grape arbor's lattice in textiles and lacework, borders a saint with pretzels that were originally baked to imitate hands clasped in prayer, in a secular study of commonplace reality...
This time the team's boosters reorganized the Packers as a nonprofit corporation (which they were anyway), peddled $125,000 worth of nondividend stock at $25 a share. "All we got was a certificate with some fancy lacework around the edge.'' says one shareholder, "and the best football team in the world." Today the Green Bay Packers Inc. has 1,698 stockholders, and its annual meeting is a major event on Green Bay's social calendar...
...created a second window in the sky. And astronomers anxious to examine the far reaches of the celestial landscape are busily constructing the strange tools of their new trade. Odd shapes bulge above the horizon from Russia to Australia and all across the U.S. Great dishes of steel lacework sweep slowly across the sky; giant troughs rock like cradles; forests of poles and miles of wire stretch out in geometrical patterns. To avoid electrical interference, most of the radio telescopes hide away in mountain-ringed valleys, far from towns or well-traveled highways. But they are never far from...