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Yesterday afternoon, police arrested about 250 lobbyists organized by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice. They had broken through a plywood wall erected by police Wednesday night to prevent them from entering the inner corridors of the HEW building...
Despite such doubts, domes are mushrooming in a dizzying array of skins-from the wood and metal favored by kit manufacturers to brick, stone, cement and plastic. Kahn has experimented with domes of plywood walls insulated with nitrogen-filled vinyl pillows, aluminum frames covered with Plexiglas, and wood covered with burlap then sprayed with quick-hardening plastic foam. Perhaps the most interesting new project is one involving the use of Mylar plastic film coated so that one side reflects light while the other is transparent. Outsiders thus see only an opaque dome, but those inside have an unobstructed view...
...most of the works in the show are by Rivers, who contributed 38 drawings, constructions and paintings, ranging from an immense wooden model of a slave ship-with a taped reading by a black actor from the memoirs of an 18th century slave-to Lynching, a group of hanging plywood figures of dead blacks around the sprawling figure of a white girl on a bed. "I put her on the floor underneath the figures to emphasize the sexual inference under the issue of race in this country." There is even a constructed replica of a Harlem tenement's front...
...been in Cambodia now for a month, arriving when it looked as if the aid would soon be appropriated. Representing a bewildering variety of firms, he is offering a wide range of items. Among them are cement, plywood, air-conditioners, industrial chemicals, cranes, bulldozers, trucks, troop-carrying vehicles, evaporated milk, 30 ton generators capable of lighting a village, and enough canned food to feed the entire Cambodian army...
...remainder of the apartment is no better. Large gaping holes pattern the plaster, and broken windows are boarded over with plywood. The Whites have four single beds for the nine of them, and there are four chairs and a small table in the entrance way, where the family eats in two shifts. The kitchen is dim and terribly hot. Mary keeps the stove burning all day because the central heating rarely works. "The gas is leaking just a little," she says, "and the doctor says we've got to keep the stove off. But if we did there wouldn...