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Birds, Beetles & Butterflies. Timbertop, patterned largely after Gordonstoun, is a branch of Australia's Geelong Grammar School, an exclusive institution operated by the Church of England. It is designed to toughen up 130 young aristocrats every year. The boys do all their own housekeeping except cook. They make overnight hikes across 1,300 acres of rugged Crown land, watch birds, hunt beetles, collect butterflies...
...learned to keep his right shoulder "open"-away from the direction of the pitch, to rock forward with each pitch, to hide his left hand in his glove to avoid exposing the ball while he was winding up. That seemed to be all there was to it. Practically overnight, Koufax became the best pitcher in baseball...
...Transportation Authority. He also sits on six company boards, intends to relinquish all of these seats to avoid conflicts of interest. So anxious is he to get into space that last week he had no sooner finished a speaking engagement in Los Angeles than he jetted to Washington overnight to attend his first Comsat board meeting-still attired in his dinner jacket...
...plastic arrows express resurrection, even if with a tainted blatancy; the plastic bubble above the mannequin mother's mouth, actually a dimestore baby's plastic bubble, symbolizes a scream. It is theater, embalmed in translucent epoxy and cluttered with props-a ghostly coat rack, old sandals, an overnight case. But it deals with harsh reality. Says Kienholz, "We need to say these things: I'm a man. I'm an artist. I make a good sculpture. It may not be art, but I know it's made well...
...Saturday night party in Weld South, with "a lot of noise, a lot of drinking, and a lot of horsing around, had gotten out of hand." In a separate incident, he added, a teenage girl from Cambridge had passed out in the Yard, and was hospitalized at Stillman Infirmary overnight...