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...when he died last week in Paris, one day short of his 85th birthday, a chapter in the history of modern culture closed. Ernst was our century's incarnation of Hermes, the agile trickster, and we will not see his like again. He was, with the more phlegmatic Rene Magritte, the best of all the artists connected with surrealism-the master of the "alternative" tradition of mystery, unreason and demonic...
Meanwhile, the company disbursed roughly $4 million to influential figures in Italy, Sweden, Canada and Turkey. In Bolivia, Gulf reluctantly bought a helicopter for the late dictator, General Rene Barrientos. Some of these gifts were legal in their countries; others were decidedly illegal...
...medal. More than most people, the French love to get awards, and last week, at annual awards ceremonies, medal mania was in full swing. The country's most prestigious decoration, the Legion of Honor, was given to 1,500 men and women, including venerable (77) Film Director Rene Clair and Feminist Writer Louise Weiss, as well as a pop singer, a swimming champion, a truck driver and a physical-education teacher in Brazzaville, capital of the Congo Republic...
Chile's General Rene Schneider. In October 1970, Schneider, commander in chief of Chile's army, was killed while resisting a kidnaping attempt. President Nixon in September had ordered the CIA "to play a direct role in organizing a military coup in Chile to prevent [Salvador] Allende's accession to the presidency," and the kidnaping was viewed as an indispensable and unavoidable element in that coup. As it happened, the CIA five days before had withdrawn its support of the particular group that pulled off the kidnaping that resulted in the general's death...
This fresh view of Teotihuacan is based on a combination of archaeological investigation and computer analysis. Mexican, U.S. and Canadian researchers, under the leadership of the University of Rochester's Rene Millon, have spent years mapping the city and collecting more than a million artifacts, mostly pottery shards and tools but also human and animal remains. After identifying and cataloguing the pieces from each location, the scientists ran their data through a series of computer programs designed by Physicist turned Archaeologist George Cowgill of Brandeis University. These enable them to determine, for example, if a particular site...