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...years ago a leaking chlorine pipe caused the IAB to be evacuated, and seven people were hospitalized overnight. Cambridge firemen and police shut off the leak and evacuated both the IAB and Lowell House...
Officials gave different accounts of the cause of that leak, ranging from a deteriorated chlorine pipe to a rupture as a result of changing the chlorine tank...
Manila echoed as soldiers drove jeeps and trucks madly through the dusty streets, blowing horns, beating on fenders with iron pipe. Over the din sounded the shrill voices of children screaming: "Beectory . . . beectory...
...attic of a five-story apartment house at Haberlandstrasse, 5, a quiet thoroughfare near Berlin's zoölogical garden. A large iron door, which clangs as it shuts, keeps him in solitude and silence. The room smells of tobacco. He smokes a long-stem briar pipe, into which he tamps tobacco with his thumb. His working tools are paper and pencils on a good-sized table and his books (cheaply bound in paper for the most part) on shelves around the wall. Ornaments are a four-foot telescope and a large terrestrial globe. The grand piano...
...Nevertheless, some of his cubist still lifes of 1911 run close to total abstraction. Objects were sunk in a twinkling field of vectors and shadows, solid lapping into transparency, things penetrating and turning away, leaving behind the merest signs for themselves-a letter or two, the bowl of a pipe, the sound hole of a guitar. This sense of multiple relationships was the core of cubism's modernity. It declared that all visual experience could be set forth as a shifting field that included the onlooker. It was painting's unconscious answer to the theory of relativity...