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...raging Atlantic waters went summer houses at Westhampton Beach, some valued at $50,000, and more modest shacks on Fire Island's dunes. Water swirled over car tops at Coney Island. Nearly one-third of the total damage occurred in New Jersey. Atlantic City's exposed Steel Pier was partially swept away, stranding the former "Miss America" ballroom. Hundreds of homes were ruined on Long Beach Island, which was sliced into five islets by the waves. At devastated Sea Isle City, a three-story convent was taken over by the ocean just after nuns abandoned it. Some...
Married or Not? Since most cases are reported in the press, thousands of lives and careers have been wrecked. In Port Elizabeth last month, a white man drove his car off the pier and drowned after he learned that police would bring Immorality Act charges against him; in Klerksdorp, a father of four children asphyxiated himself rather than go to court for his affair with a black woman...
...gilded works, the mood is often different. In his Apollo Belvedere, Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (Antico), the best of the bronze sculptors at the Gonzaga court in Mantua, produced a figure of almost stylized grace. The Homage to Sculpture is blatantly-though magnificently-contrived. Bernini's 6-in. masks seem at first glance to be pure theater, yet they provide a kind of climax to the show. The Renaissance master, having unlocked the classic secrets of the human face and figure, could now take liberties with nature. It is Bernini's triumph that the masks are mood rather...
Sharing the Norton Professorship of Poetry this year with Candela will be R. Buckminster Fuller '17 of the United States and Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy...
...reinforced squad of Customs inspectors trooped into Manhattan's Pier 86 one day last week to snare the 1,558 passengers of the liner United States, just in from Europe. Reason: the allowance for duty-free purchases abroad had been changed from $500 to $100-a step aimed at stemming the U.S. gold drain. Total purchases over the $100 limit are now subject to taxes...