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...great Greek scientist Archimedes, the study of mathematics and physics meant far more than pure scholarship. Imaginative application of the laws he worked out led to eminently practical inventions-from contrivances employing the lever to an ingenious steam-powered cannon. Perhaps his most remarkable contribution to weaponry, according to Lucian, Plutarch and other ancient writers, was a "burning glass" that focused the sun's rays to set fire to Roman ships besieging his home town of Syracuse around 214 B.C. Exactly how Archimedes managed this spectacular use of solar power has long been the subject of scholarly debate. Many...
Simple Amenities. Though Coke has owned the groves since 1960, Austin said, he awakened to the migrant workers' plight only in 1968, after he had begun reading about Cesar Chavez's drive to organize California grape pickers (see THE NATION). Austin sent J. Lucian Smith, president of Coke's food division, to inspect the Florida groves. Smith reported back to him that the workers' living conditions "could not in conscience be tolerated by the Coca-Cola...
...lover, Nick (Charles Murphy), a hotel bellboy in full uniform who wants to blackmail the lady with some morning-after photo negatives. She replies haughtily: "When I gave myself to you the contract didn't include cinematic rights." To cap the comers-in, in comes Dr. Ranee (Lucian Scott), an official inspector of mental clinics: "I represent our government, your immediate superiors in madness." What follows is a running maze of exits, reappearances, disappearances, mistaken identities, clothes swapping between men and women, and one of those crazy-happy recognition endings that Shakespeare used in which half the people onstage...
...Your banal enthronement of confused, inarticulate, chauvinistic, anti-intellectual mediocrity has struck a responsive chord in my cynical heart. Bless you. LUCIAN R. SMITH Mankato, Minn...
CHINA TODAY AND TOMORROW (NBC, 2:30-4:30 p.m.). Edwin Newman is the anchorman for this news special which features television films from Communist China and discussion of China by a panel of experts including Edwin O. Reischauer, A. Doak Barnett, Allen S. Whiting. Lucian Pye, Richard L. Walker and Roderick MacFarquhar...