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...Autobiography," is an account of Naipaul's background in Trinidad as the son and grandson of Indian immigrants. Growing up in an Indian household in a British colony just off the coast of a Spanish country, it is easy to see where Naipaul developed his interest in the overlay of different lands and different ways of seeing things...
...night in the Kremlin," Edward Wilkinson announced as he hoisted a glass of champagne in mid-Pacific, 4,800 miles from California. Wilkinson, director of U.S. Army effort known as "Homing Overlay Experiment," had good reason to hope for some insomnia in Moscow: his project scored its first success last week. A special interceptor rocket fired from Meek Island in the Kwajalein archipelago had struck the dummy warhead of a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that had been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California some 30 earlier. Military analyst described the collision, which pulverized both projectiles more...
...novel gadgetry that made Homing Overlay successful is a sophisticated guidance system in the interceptor's warhead. It is able, thanks to a remarkable infrared sensor, to fix in space a target as small as a human being 1,000 miles away...
Army spokesmen emphasized that Homing Overlay was merely an experiment, the fourth in a $300 million series that has been under way for six years. The three previous tests failed for various mechanical reasons. According to the spokesmen, the point of the experiment is to prove that incoming missiles can be destroyed well before they reach their targets without resorting to defensive nuclear explosions. Some scientists believe that radioactive fallout from such interceptions would be minimal, since the target warheads would be demolished without exploding. The Army insisted that Homing Overlay was "completely and absolutely compliant" with the 1972 anti...
Krasner always wanted to paint big pictures, ones that stretched arm and eye, surfaces that rose to the challenge of scale that was embedded in abstract expressionism. But she was able to find a way of rapid gestural drawing that did not depend on the skeining and overlay of thrown paint from edge to edge that Pollock had perfected. It was the brush that counted for her, and when she did fling or dribble liquid pigment on the surface, it only looked like a mannerism. But her sense of drawing was so ingrained that she could cover a huge surface...