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...subliminal suggestion rather than accident that made gold so dominant a color in a 4-ft.-by-8-ft. canvas dedicated last week at F.X. McRory's Steak, Chop and Oyster House in Seattle. Accepting a $100,000 commission from the restaurant's owners, Pop Artist LeRoy Neiman had begun the painting a year ago, but then somehow found himself running low on inspiration. McRory's spurred him on by sweetening the terms with 64 oz. of gold at a time when the precious metal was selling for $396 per oz. Suitably reinspired, Neiman rushed to completion...
...structure. Caltech scientists are working with a "sequencing" machine that needs as little as ten picomoles (less than a millionth of a gram) of pure IF to determine the composition and sequence of the IF molecule's amino acid chain, which consists of about 150 links. Explains Molecular Geneticist Leroy Hood: "It's like having pearls of different colors on a string and clipping them off one by one and identifying the color of each...
...they now seem to have been. That was Ted Kennedy's biggest political asset when he started his campaign in November. Explained Pharmacist Ken Dockter, 23, in Grafton, N.D.: "Right away you think of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and you kind of get pulled into it." Said Leroy Allen, 52, a black steelworker in Gary, Ind., who voted for John Kennedy in 1960: "Who can lead us to the promised land? Everybody's looking for Moses." Boston University Political Science Major Robert Aleknas, 21, thought Kennedy was the ideal man "to turn things around economically at home...
...Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, 73, the lanky pitcher who over four decades terrified opponents and electrified fans with his artistry on the mound, is about to get the TV-movie treatment. In Don't Look Back, an ABC film to be aired next year, Lou Gossett Jr., will portray Hall of Famer Paige. Gossett, 42, who played sandlot ball in Brooklyn with a lefty named Sandy Koufax, is thrilled to be portraying Paige, the man who did not believe in looking back, because, as he explained in a phrase that has entered the language, "someone may be gaining...
...Leroy Jenkins' advanced experimentation with unusual instrumental pairings and contrasts, and his vanguard violin stylings are all represented on this well-produced, nicely annotated recording. This music is not for everyone, but experience has proved that today's esoterica can easily become tomorrow's essential background...