Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week Kosygin heads south in the company of Premier Georges Pompidou for a tour of the show places of modern French industry, including the Concorde supersonic-transport plant in Toulouse and the nuclear-research center at Grenoble. By coincidence, his trip will take him through precisely those areas of France where De Gaulle is weakest and the left strongest. If Kosygin keeps on singing his praises, that, at least, will please De Gaulle...
...fighting in the paddies for a long time. There are an estimated 30,000 "hard hat" or main-force Viet Cong soldiers and some 50,000 local guerrillas and political agents. No North Vietnamese regulars operate in the Delta, but the Viet Cong main force units are equipped with modern Chinese weaponry that equals in firepower the South Vietnamese force that has opposed them up to now. Principal Red sanctuaries are the mangrove swamps along the coast, the Plain of Reeds, which is alternately under monsoon waters or a brick-hard bed of dried mud in the dry season...
...professorship at Davidson, Kadel got 281 acres of seashore land from the city of St. Petersburg. Two fund-raising drives in St. Petersburg netted $4,000,000; the Presbyterians chipped in with $3,300,000. Florida Presbyterian opened in 1960, now has 810 students and a campus of functional modern buildings worth $14 million...
Madcap Circuitry. James Seawright's spidery electronic sculptures could be Paul Klee's fidgety drawings turned into robots. New York's Modern Art and Whitney museums each snapped up one of the beasts from the tech stylist's first one-man show at the Stable Gallery. "For the artist to ignore the possibilities of technology would be utter folly," says Seawright, and he seems to have ignored few. His Watcher took 6½ months to produce; its tiny lights flicker in programmed sequences, photocell-tipped antennas bob about like tentacles, seeking the lights, and a speaker...
...root source of a modern Christian morality, says Roman Catholic Bishop Francis Simons of Indore, India, is not so much the Bible or natural law as the consensus of what constitutes "the good or welfare of man, in society and individually." In the current issue of the U.S. theological quarterly Cross Currents, Dutch-born Bishop Simons uses his consensus theory to propose a radical revision of ethics that would make certain violations of generally accepted moral principles reasonable exceptions to the rule rather than sinful inconsistencies...