Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.C.A.A. CENTENNIAL (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Film clips of famous plays and players high light this commemoration of the 100th anniversary of college football...
Speer evokes one memorable night at Obersalzberg. It was Aug. 23, 1939. Hitler had just received a telegram from Stalin agreeing to the nonaggression pact that set the stage for the invasion of Poland nine days later. An unusual polar light flooded the sky and, Speer writes, "the final act of the Götterdämmerung could not have been staged with greater effect. All our faces and hands cast off an unnatural red glow. Abruptly Hitler turned to one of his military adjutants and said: That looks like much blood. This time it won't come...
...Speer's work, nothing remains except the Zeppelin Stadium in Nürnberg, where Speer created Europe's first light-and-sound spectaculars during prewar party rallies. "I am glad none of my plans were realized," he says today. Speer would like to practice architecture again, but because of his past he is unlikely to get commissions.' He accepts the situation. "In the life of the state, there is responsibility for your own area. Beyond this, there has to be a collective responsibility for the decisive things if you are among the leaders...
...incident, which took place in rolling, heavily jungled country in the Song Chang river valley, 30 miles south of Danang, came to light accidentally. Associated Press Photographer Horst Faas happened to be sitting in Lieut. Colonel Robert C. Bacon's 3rd Battalion headquarters when it occurred. The brief episode spanned less than an hour, and it directly involved six of Company A's 60 men: five fatigued and panicky G.I.s and Lieut. Eugene Shurtz Jr., 26, a green company commander whose basic error, as another officer put it, was that "he tried to reason with the men when...
...which Germany's Ruhr Valley is noted. Becher's concern with the weather is not a matter of whim. He is a photographer, his subject the collieries, mills, water towers and other rugged structures of Europe's coal and steel industries. Only a dull diffused light, he has found, can properly set off the austere, utilitarian designs produced by the Industrial Revolution long before Bauhaus theoreticians made a cult of functionalism...