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...last word in automotive sophistication. Only 40 in. high, each packed 475 horses under its hood. Henry himself was on hand to watch them run, and he made no bones about how he expected them to finish. "You'd better win," he told his director of racing, Leo Beebe, "or else...
Lichtenstein was touted early as a potential winner; indeed his dealer, Leo Castelli, went hoarse lobbying for him. But then so were Sweden's Oyvind Fahl-strom, who makes pop cutouts, Britain's Sculptor Anthony Caro, who studied with Henry Moore, and Germany's young expressionist Horst Antes, who mashes anatomy into a strudel of bright colors. Actually, in sculpture at least, the laurels were split between two rather conservative choices: Etienne Martin, 53, of France, who was rumored to have received a helping hand from Culture Minister Andre Malraux, and Robert Jacobsen, 54, of Denmark...
Scientists were also astounded at the efficiency of Surveyor's solar panels, which seemed to be having no trouble keeping its batteries fully charged. "We never dreamed in our fondest dreams that we would have so much power," admitted Aerospace Engineer Leo Stoolman, a technical director at Hughes Aircraft, which built Surveyor. As a result, scientists who had at first speculated that Surveyor might operate for only 30 hours into the long lunar night began talking confidently about at least three times that much nighttime telemetry before batteries run down...
...pioneers were at it right up to the end. In Frankfurt, a frontiersman named Timm Ulrichs put himself on view in a glass box, along with his school diploma, vaccination certificate and other personal documents. Manhattan's Leo Castelli Gallery put on a one-man show titled "Store Fronts," which is all they were: a row of fullscale, blank and well-lighted store fronts made of metal with Plexiglas windows backed by brown wrapping paper. The artist is a 30-year-old Bulgarian escapee from Soviet Realism named Christo, who has lived in New York since...
Shortstop Pete Karegaennes led off the bottom of the ninth with an infield single, and first baseman Ken O'Connell lined a single to center, moving the runner to second. Both men advanced on Leo Laverdore's fly to center field. Dennis Horger walked to load the bases, and with Saba at the plate, the fatal pickoff throw ended the procedings...