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...Last week, as France withdrew from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the change of command was far from melodramatic. French General Glean Crepin, commander of the Allied Forces in Central Europe, demanded a private ceremony in the inner courtyard of the Château de Fontainebleau. There, with the quietest of diplomatic drumrolls, he relinquished control of the 60 divisions in NATO's European defense machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: A Change of Command | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...kinetic artists see their art as expressing not only the machine but also nature itself. Says Critic-Sculptor George Rickey: "Nature is rarely still. She follows natural laws: gravity, Newton's laws of motion, the traffic laws of topology." Gabo proclaimed: "Look at a ray of sun-the quietest of the silent strengths-it runs 300,000 kilometers in a second. Our starry sky -does anyone hear it?" But whether attuned to the music of the spheres or the metallic clanking of makeshift machines, artists by the score are now trying to make poetry out of motion. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Styles: The Movement Movement | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

...season with a new 5100-foot Heron double chair and 30 acres of new trials. Stratton is one of the most substantial of the new developments and the lifts, trails and lodge have all been carefully--and expensively--built. The area's four double chairs are the smoothest and quietest in New England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Why Not Try Lesser-Known Ski Area? | 2/11/1965 | See Source »

...season with a new 5100 foot Heron double chair and 30 acres of new trials. Stratton is one of the most substantial of the new developments and the lifts, trails and lodge have all been carefully--and expensively--built. The area's four double chairs are the smoothest and quietest in New England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Why Not Try Lesser-Known Ski Area? | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...Pilot. What kind of man did it take to do what Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. did? Of the original seven U.S. astronauts, "Gordo" Cooper was the youngest (36), slightest (5 ft. 9 in., 147 Ibs.), quietest, least known-and, in the opinion of many, the least likely to win the world's acclaim for a marvel of skill and courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Great Gordo | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

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