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DURING World War II, Eleanor Roosevelt logged thousands of miles visiting American troops overseas and meeting with exiled leaders in London. Mrs. John Kennedy lent her special brand of jet-set elegance to her husband's presidency by making unofficial trips to India and Pakistan. Lady Bird Johnson, who generally confined her traveling to the continental U.S., journeyed to Greece for the funeral of King Paul. But no First Lady in history has quite matched the Pat Nixon traveling road show, which last week wound up a resoundingly successful eight-day, 10,000-mile, jet-propelled good-will tour...
...tightly regulate oil and mineral exploration. Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy is one of the sponsors of the Senate bill; Maryland Congressman Edward A. Garmatz, powerful chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, is co-sponsoring the House bill, which was introduced by Long Island Congressman Norman Lent...
...give. In Houston, it was Phyllis Diller as well as Buster Mathis who landed on the canvas -though ex-Champ Muhammad Ali hardly seemed to notice. He might have been expected to express a little gratitude. Even flat on her back, Phyllis was the only other person who lent a little life to the well-publicized...
Archaeologists were delighted with the new technique, which brought Libby a Nobel Prize. By using it to date artifacts of questionable vintage, archaeologists found that it lent fresh support to one of their pet theories-that there was a gradual diffusion of culture from the advanced Near East to barbarian Europe. There were a few puzzling exceptions: Stone Age tombs in Brittany, for example, were found to date back to at least 3000 B.C. Yet the oldest comparable tombs in the eastern Mediterranean-built by the Minoans on Crete -were known indirectly from actual historical records to date from only...
...this drama worked. The light pours over the forms of the young hero's body like a photoflash, stopping the action at its climax. Every lit shape has its rim of darkness, isolating it in deep relief. Caravaggio's best late paintings (none of which could be lent to Cleveland) rely absolutely on this tension between commonplace detail and sublime staging. Caught between the transfiguring light and the gnawing darkness, his figures acquired a mysterious, haunting irrationality. Sometimes the flow of light actually contradicts the muscles and skin that Caravaggio studied with such care. The final effect...