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...Toynbee calls Apollo "moonmanship follies." John Kennedy's science adviser, Jerome Wiesner, warns that "it would be a mistake to commit $100 billion to a manned Mars landing when we have problems getting from Boston to New York City." Says Physicist Ralph Lapp: "Given a choice between $500 million for basic research and the same amount to bring back a second bagful of rocks from the moon, only a lunatic scientist would take more than a microsecond of decision time...
Until 1938, the capital of the world's richest nation had no art museum worthy of the name. In that year Financier Andrew Mellon gave the Government his $50 million art collection and added another $16 million to build a museum to house it. Today the National Gallery is one of the world's great collections, and, in large measure, the man who has guided its growth and controlled its quality is Director John Walker, 62, who last week announced his retirement...
...University and his parents are both well-known collectors), the new director is also a Harvard man and latter-day student of Berenson's. During the past two years, he has been principally concerned with plans for the National Gallery's most ambitious new project: the $20 million Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, a sort of esthetic equivalent to the science-oriented School for Advanced Study at Princeton...
...results are mixed at best, reports TIME'S Moscow Correspondent Jerrold Schecter. The extra day has piled 10 million extra people on top of the 18 million already using the council's facilities. The demand for sports goods has grown so great that hockey sticks disappeared from the shelves of Moscow's stores this winter. There is still a two-to three-year wait for new automobiles, and drivers who plan a long trip must load up with food and extra gas before setting out, since there are few service stations and no motels and restaurants outside...
Logging the Hours. There is mounting pressure from Washington against tobacco commercials, and television seems to be listening. The TV industry, which carried $208 million in tobacco advertising last year, now carries about one antismoking commercial for every three cigarette spots. Both NBC and ABC have increased the number of antismoking commercials in prime time, while two broadcast station owners -Post-Newsweek and Group W-have dropped cigarette advertising altogether.* Dr. Frederickson, however, still considers that inadequate. Last December he went on the air himself in a series of five 30-minute programs on WOR-TV, a Manhattan independent, called...