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...knotted muscles, smoke and use Soviet outhouses. These interludes and the dreary view from the airliner's ports afforded a rare peek at the Kuriles, which Russia has guarded with xenophobic jealousy ever since the islands were seized as booty from Japan after World War II. A mist-shrouded necklet of 50 volcanic islets, the Kuriles are strung strategically from within seven miles of Hokkaido to seven miles from Kamchatka on the Siberian mainland. "The whole place looked half-abandoned," said Army Specialist Five Theodore Sokardo. "The runway was narrow and the field buildings were dingy and, wellere flashed...
...perhaps the most at home with jewelry. His strange, twisted wire brooches and earrings are intriguing parallels to his spinning mobiles, and his spiky, formidable necklaces are often wrought from scrap iron. His best work, though, is in hammered silver. American Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz shows a gold-plated necklet cast with an antique turquoise...
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