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...himself, became its conscience, a reluctant Eumenide. Instead of warbling teen-age love songs, he wrote about bigotry, nuclear destruction, war profiteers and social desolation. Dylan was background for a campus rap session, inspiration for an essay. He was the brooding presence uniting thousands of unsatisfied students, a pioneer who purged the inanities from popular music with surrealistic epigrams and metaphysical subtleties...
Died. Gabriel Voisin, 93, pioneer French aeronautical engineer; near Tournus, France. Voisin claimed that his biplane, which took off under its own power and flew a one-kilometer circuit in 1908, made the world's first valid aircraft flight. (The Wright Brothers in 1903 had used a catapult-assisted takeoff.) Voisin built 10,400 aircraft for the Allies during World...
...flood of data from Pioneer 10's different instruments will require weeks and even months of detailed analysis, but project scientists last week had already made some preliminary conclusions. For one thing, Jupiter's magnetic field-only about ten times stronger than the earth's-follows what the scientists variously dubbed a "Saturn ring" and "Hula-Hoop" model; that is, the lines of magnetic force seem to stretch outward near the equator but are more rounded at the poles. The average temperature of Jupiter's cloud tops is somewhat above 200°F. with no apparent...
...chagrin of Pioneer's photographic team, there was a loss of several close-up pictures, including one of the Jovian moon lo, an object of particular interest to astronomers because of its extraordinary brilliance. But other data and the color shots of Jupiter, including a closeup of the Red Spot during the flyby, fully met expectations...
...York's Museum of Modern Art assembled and commented on by the director of the museum's photography department. There is, naturally, a wide choice of subject. The pictures were taken over a period extending roughly from 1850 to the present; the photographers include the likes of Pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron, Dorothea Lange, Cartier-Bresson, Brassa'i, Robert Doisneau, Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon. Szarkowski's pic-ture-by-picture text ranges from brilliant and supple observations to what can fairly be described as academic twaddle. People who take photography seriously will want the book because, even...