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Each half-hour program deals expertly with one specific scientific advance and the personality of the pioneer who made it possible. "The scientist becomes a protagonist," says Herbert, "a man with a struggle." The premiere featured Cornell Zoologist Perry Gilbert and his studies on "Attack Patterns of Sharks...
...style in graphics went on display last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art with 48 prints by 15 artists. In the opinion of the museum's print director, William Lieberman, the pioneer of the movement is Robert Rauschenberg, who in 1964 created a print called Shades, which was, in effect, an art-toy-graphic. He transferred bits of newspapers and magazines onto a lithography stone, then inked and printed the image on an acetate sheet, which he in turn laminated on Plexiglas. Finally, he illuminated the whole thing with a light bulb. The result: a movable...
Died. Florence Ellinwood Allen, 82, pioneer woman jurist, who, after a damaged nerve thwarted her ambition to be a concert pianist, turned to law in Ohio, where she became the nation's first woman to be elected a county prosecutor (1920), first woman elected to a state supreme court (1922) and first woman appointed to a U.S. court of appeals (1934); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Waite Hill, Ohio...
...investigation; well aware of it, Vermeer laid out his paintings in a wizardly arrangement of planes, lines, cubes and cones. He also used the camera obscura, a forerunner of photography. In all probability, he was introduced to it by his fellow townsman Anton van Leeuwenhoek, inventor of a microscope, pioneer in optical research, and thought by some critics to be the young scholar portrayed in The Astronomer...
Conquering Hydrospace. In West Palm Beach, a privately developed 22-ft-long submersible is nearing completion for a planned dive in the early fall. Designed jointly by Perry Submarine Builders, Inc., and Ocean Pioneer Edwin Link, the PLC4 will be "flown" under water by means of helicopter-like propellers at the stern and overhead. It will take two crewmen and two scuba divers to a maximum depth of 1,500 ft., where the divers can exit to the water from a pressurized compartment, returning to live aboard...