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Elegant Simplicity. England in the 18th century was caught up in the throes of a classical revival. The digs at lava-overlaid Herculaneum in Italy were uncovering arts of antiquity that the world was seeing for the first time. Architect Robert Adam was recapturing the glories of Greece and Rome in his neoclassic columns and pediments. Wedgwood, too, plunked for the neoclassic against rococo excesses, writing in 1769: "Elegant simplicity-I shall more than ever make that idea a leading principle." He glazed red figures similar to Etruscan pots onto the matte surfaces of his ironlike black basalt ware. Then...
Limberer for Lava. A suit designed for use in weightless space can include several hundred pounds of instruments, oxygen, propellant, cooling agent, tools and other supplies. The wearer will not feel the weight, only the inertial mass. For some missions his less and torso will need little flexibility; they can stay stiff while the man works with his arms and moves around with his rocket thrusters...
...limbs must be flexible to permit the wearer to clamber around on the moon's surface, which is probably covered in many places with chunks of rubble and unstable dusty slopes. One U.S. astronaut recently put on a moon-exploration space suit and stumbled across a lava bed in Oregon. He found the knees too stiff for such work, and the suit is being made more limber...
Concerned. The protests flowed like molten lava to Washington. To his dismay, Nicholas Katzenbach found a troop of twelve Negro and white demonstrators parked in the corridor near his office, demanding that he send federal troops to Alabama. Katzenbach talked with them, tried to explain how the Federal Government works through the courts. He got nowhere, permitted the sit-ins to remain till closing time, then had them evicted...
...60th. Three European painters work in a rich variety of oils. Philippe Hosiasson, Russian-born cousin of the late Boris Pasternak, carves wavy landscapes out of creamy colors. Germany's Emil Schumacher produces scarred and wounded figures from mixed media that resembles dried clay and hardened lava. Iaroslav Serpan, a Yugoslav teaching at the Sorbonne, swishes up a storm of spiny black lines in a sea of gentle blues and greens. Through...