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Twelve federal disease detectives were gumshoeing through the normally placid Chicago suburb of Niles (13 miles northwest of the Loop) last week, on what looked like a hot trail in the hunt for a cause of acute leukemia (blood cancer) in childhood. An outbreak of cases in that community suggests for the first time that childhood leukemia, while definitely not infectious in any ordinary sense, somehow spreads from some common source...
...similarly silent fashion, integration has come to Nashville's schools, to its department-store lunch counters, downtown theaters, golf courses, libraries, and airport. Although located in a border state, Nashville is in many senses a Deep South city. It is not necessarily a placid place. Says a race-relations worker who has long traveled throughout the South: "Nashville can be the nastiest town I've ever seen." But Nashville (pop. 170,000) has unexpectedly taken its place in the vanguard of Southern integration...
...placid citizens of Geneva take international conferences in stride, and scarcely looked up as the black limousines containing Russian, American and Chinese delegates swept by on their way to the Palais des Nations. But it was more dangerous to have the Algerian rebels in their midst...
...Placid Van Gogh. Biblical themes, so often shown in bloody violence are also restrained: Carpaccio's The Meditation on the Passion, a somewhat surrealistic scene of peaceful death, or Giovanni di Paolo's Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, a nonviolent exile in which the principals appear to have shed everything, including expressions of remorse. Of the relatively few El Grecos in the U.S., the chosen canvas is not an anguished saint or sinner, but a corpulent Trinitarian monk at ease in an armchair...
...similarly uncharacteristic canvas is a pastoral landscape by Van Gogh-the placid Plain at Auvers. It is a subtle study of pale blues and greens in which plowed fields and few trees lie under a sky that hardly swirls as much as the one in Francesco Guardi's gently shaded Venetian Scene...