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...find was anything more than a hoax. Since then, nearly a hundred richly decorated prehistoric caves have been found in Spain and France, and the existence of paleolithic painting has been established beyond doubt. The ancient artisans also left behind tiny sculptures of exquisite beauty, meticulous carvings on mammoth bone, and other stunning objects. Like the tableaux on the cave walls, some portray paleolithic man's animal neighbors. Others, often rendered in an almost contemporary style, show the Cro-Magnon people themselves...
...dazzling collection includes, for example, a tiny, 6.4-cm-long (2½ in.) curving sculpture of a horse carved out of a mammoth tusk; it hardly seems possible that this graceful piece, fashioned more than 30,000 years ago, is one of the oldest objets d'art ever found. No less remarkable are the voluptuous "Venus" statuettes, some of them coiffed in Stone Age chic, that date back some 27,000 years. Even the wall paintings, some of them on a larger-than-life scale, show a mastery of form and perspective that was not seen again for almost...
...carriers, for instance, can rapidly commit more than 100 fighter-bombers, about half a dozen early-warning command-and-control aircraft and 1,800 Marines to battle on eastern Mediterranean shores in support of Greece and Turkey. From the North Atlantic's Second Fleet, planes could strike the mammoth Soviet naval facilities on the Kola Peninsula or dispatch amphibious landing forces to Norway to help blunt a Red Army invasion. One advantage of relying on carrier-based power, according to Senator Gary Hart, a Colorado Democrat who chairs the Military Construction and Stockpiles Subcommittee, is that "we may be evicted...
...Haydn't Symphony No. 45 ("Farewell"), and Mahler's Symphony No. 1 ("Titan"); Kirchner will be the guest conductor for his own "Music for Orchestra." The Mahler deserves close listening, expecially if you've never heard his orchestral works before; it's an interesting prelude to his even more mammoth later symphonies. The concert is on Friday evening at 8:30 pm at Sanders Theatre. Tickets are $1.50 for students, available at Holyoke Center Ticket Office. Call 495-2663 for more details...
...machinery for this mammoth undertaking was set in motion two years ago, when the idea for Holocaust occurred to NBC Programmer Irwin Segelstein. The project was assigned to Titus Productions, headed by Berger and his partner Herbert Brodkin (The Defenders, The Missiles of October). Titus' main asset was Writer Gerald Green, 56, best known for his novel The Last Angry Man. Long absorbed by the plight of Jews during the war, Green had already written two books on the subject...