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...quarters of the civilized globe do the wheels of bureaucracy grind so exceedingly slow as they do in the former realm of the Habsburgs. Thus it came as no surprise to Austrians that when the state-run Kunsthistorisches Museum recently opened a "new gallery," in a suite in Vienna's old Imperial palace, it turned out to be filled with 120 paintings by 19th century French and German artists. The collection had been taken down shortly after the Anschluss of 1938, and not been on display since. Any other country would have hustled them onto museum walls-if only...
...recent months, a significant change has occurred: the subject has moved out of the realm of science fiction and crackpot claims. Discussions of UFOs have begun to appear in the pages of such respected journals as Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Science. A few responsible scientists now put their reputations on the line by suggesting that saucers may be vehicles from outer space. The vast majority of their colleagues still scoff at this notion, but even some of the skeptics concede that serious investigation is needed...
Treat's Trick. It was not an easy place to keep chilled. Bounded on the east by the waste-grey waters of the Passaic River and shrouded by a chronic cloud of yellow industrial smog, Newark's black enclave is a grassless realm of rotting brick and crumbling concrete; no less than 32.6% of the city's housing, according to a 1962 study, is substandard. Newark was founded 301 years ago by a dissident Connecticut Puritan named Robert Treat, who, by current standards at least, tricked the Indians into selling him a site including most of what...
...what they expect to gain from their visit. Says Mrs. Nguyen Thi Hai, 45, president of Nguyen Thi Hai Pharmaceutical Co.: "Until now, France was our model in business. Now it is the United States." Miss Nguyen Thi Dong Thanh, 31, a teacher turned manager of the Merry Realm Juice Milk Co., is anxious to learn enough to "catch up with my other friends who are in business." A younger businesswoman, Miss Truong Thi Bich Tuy, 25, runs Saigon's Socipha Drug Company, which is owned by her father. Why is she at Harvard? "Too many times, I must...
...Head. Typing 90 words per minute and producing as many as 30 pages per day, Asimov began to mass produce science books, one of them-a highly understandable tour of mathematics called The Realm of Numbers -in just 13 days. "I knew it all in my head," he explains. "It was just a matter of getting it down." Yet the quality of Asimov's writing seems seldom to suffer from his pounding haste. His New Intelligent Man's Guide to Science (1965) and his three-volume Understanding Physics (1966) were praised by lay critics for both lucidity...