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Outside the brand-new, four-story, limestone Municipal Cultural Center in Jerusalem, a 9-ft.-high wire-mesh security fence was being erected last week. Inside, work is progressing on a bulletproof glass and plastic cage in which Adolf Eichmann will sit when he goes on trial. The cage, declare the Israelis, is both to shield Eichmann from assassination by an enraged spectator and to prevent a sympathizer from slipping him a vial of poison such as allowed Hermann Göring to escape the hangman's noose during the Nürnberg War Crimes trials after World...
...steel-mesh runway of Wattay Airport in Vientiane, a group of athletic-looking Americans in bright sports shirts and baseball caps busily loaded machine-gun belts and rockets aboard the four new T-6 "training" planes of the Royal Laotian Army. Not far away, behind a desk littered with documents stamped "secret," was their shirt-sleeved boss-former Brigadier General John Arnold Heintges, 48. The general tells his visitors: "Call me mister...
After four weeks, the chickens were tested for sociability by putting them one by one in an apparatus that kept automatic track of how much time they spent near a "stimulus" chicken, separated from them by a partition of wire mesh. The chickens raised in a flock or in pairs showed intense togetherness, spending nearly all their time close to the other chickens. But the chickens raised in isolation fled to the far end of the cage...
...high-tension lines. The lineman does not climb the tower. Instead, he sits in a plastic bucket and is raised to the wire by a truck-mounted boom made of insulating fiber glass. When he reaches the wire, he clamps to it a cable that is connected to metal mesh lining the bucket. This operation sounds suicidal, but it is not. The current moves into the mesh, charging it along with the lineman's body. Nothing more happens. The insulated boom keeps the current from surging to the ground, so the lineman is as safe as a bird...
...following outside their own country; the other artists in the two shows are almost all making their U.S. debuts. Luis Feito, 31, piles his paint to build up black and white compositions that resemble small cities seen from the air. Manuel Rivera, 33, works almost entirely with wire mesh to make spiderweb constructions, which he usually calls Metamorphosis. Manuel Viola, 41, gives a rare kind of pleasure with canvases that seem to have an inner glow of their own. And the imaginative iron sculpture of Eduardo Chillida almost seems to dance...