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...final step: "Molten bronze poured between the two clay surfaces melted the wax and replaced it, forming a hollow statue of bronze filled with irremovable clay." The wax, in any "lost wax" process, cast today as well as in ancient times, always has to be burned out of the mold before the bronze can be poured...
...Reader Spring's foundry, where Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz' statues are cast, burns out wax in the traditional way by placing the double-thick clay mold in a kiln fired to 1,200°F. Some of the wax escapes through a small hole in the cast, but most of it is absorbed by the porous clay...
...City Council has urged that the Common, several buildings in Harvard Yard, a large part of Radcliffe Yard, and the buildings on the land bought by the Graduate School be declared historic sites because "they are landmarks that tend strongly to give our city a distinctive character and mold the public image...
problem: how to raise scholastic stand ards without freezing profitable academic ferment in a rigid mold. One idea is a national advisory body for education. Columbia's Fischer, for example, proposes an organization like the American Red Cross, without federal funds or power, "to pass ammunition to local school boards," but not ''to lay down the law." Education Professor Paul R. Hanna of Stanford Uni versity advocates a national "commission for curriculum research and development" that would guide school boards but also shun fixed standards...
...Great Man felt the urge. His book about his brother is not really a biography. But as a chronological series of personal memories, plus cullings from Hemingway's letters, it adds some warm flesh tones to the growing picture of the supersensitive he-man who did much to mold the living as well as the writing style...