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...size of his work. The I-beams of his 1967 construction now on loan to Minneapolis, Are Years What? (For Marianne Moore), have a spread of 50 ft. and a rise of 40 - the height of a four-story building. When the Pasadena Museum temporarily allowed Di Suvero to rig a 35-ft. steel sculpture on its grounds, the only site it could spare was a corner of the parking lot; apparently the trustees feared it would chew up their lawns. The installation bills included a whopping $3,500 from the city engineer for checking the structural strength of cables...
...SUMMER is settling in on the North Slope, and the Arctic yellow poppy blooms in riotous abundance at Prudhoe Bay. Near a lone British Petroleum Co. rig, indifferent caribou graze. At the base camp, oil workers grow restless in the 24-hour daylight. Another idle crew waits 60 miles south, near Galbraith Lake, where $4,500,000 worth of unused Cat tractors, bulldozers, graders and pickup trucks stand in precise rows, as in a toyshop at Christmas. Hundreds of miles farther south, at the port of Valdez, workers are beginning to coat stacks of rusting pipeline-400 miles...
...ready access to U.S. plane and helicopter transport. Another asset is the fact that in South Viet Nam's short experience with elections, voting has come to be viewed as an almost canonical way of registering accommodation with the powers that be. Thus, Thieu has no need to rig the election, though the recent appearance all over the country of Americans taking presidential preference polls has convinced many South Vietnamese that the rigging process is already under...
Unpersuasive Argument. Last week a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court saved the Government's case, holding that neither state nor federal agents need warrants to rig their informants with bugs. Four Justices felt bound by a line of cases holding that an individual has no constitutional right to protection from informers. "Inescapably," wrote Justice Byron White for the majority, "one contemplating illegal activities must realize and risk that his companions may be reporting to the police." White found the addition of a hidden third party to the conversation an unpersuasive argument to challenge the constitutionality of the surveillance. According...
Ditto: Phil Silvers. If someone is going to do an in-place jog in your living room in a blue sweatsuit, and rig the timer so that he won't collapse in the middling prime of his life, then why not share the pleasure of Phil's strenuously hilarious company? What with his toothy grin and Dennis' prehensile incisors, the pair might be auditioning for a dentists' convention...