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...been hurt by a cherry bomb that exploded near his face, faculty members for the first time helped break up milling students, although their pleas did not increase respect for the troops. Shouted Student Housing Director Binford Nash: "They are trigger happy, and they will shoot. So for the sake of your mothers, go back to your rooms." University officials and M.P.s searched student rooms, turned up a startling array of weapons...
Whether done as studies or for their own sake, all the drawings are strangely affecting. Leonardo's Leda-possibly a study for the painting that has been lost-has a sensual rhythm not often revealed by Leonardo. Rembrandt's landscapes and village scenes are masterful mixtures of meticulousness and freedom. Holbein could almost carve with his crayon, and Rubens, with his delicate and flowing line, could transform an act of drudgery into an act of grace. Somehow, the workings of genius are never more clear than in drawings of the quality of the collection at Chatsworth...
...contracts for Massachusetts. He argues that two elected Kennedys can offer only mutual embarrassment, not mutual aid. But, even on Lodge's terms, will a President who appoints one brother Attorney General and permits another to run for the Senate be embarrassed to bolster the Massachusetts economy for the sake of Ted's polical career? Ted sees nothing impractical in his probable future relationship with the President. Our responsibilities are different, says Ted. "The President would expect me to support Massachusetts as he did as Senator." Thus Ted praises the Trade Expansion Act but warns that "Massachusetts industry must...
...permanent four-power conference "to solve the German question." During the noisy sessions, Adenauer rose to proclaim hotly his full solidarity with U.S. Berlin policy. But opposition delegates could not forgive a passage in Adenauer's policy speech which sneered at "those who constantly expect initiatives . . . for the sake of remaining busy." Added der Alte: "As long as the Soviet Union insists on the division of Germany . . . most of the initiatives which we are urged to take will be devoid of sense...
...sake of acoustics, unquestionably the most vital concern of a structure devoted to music, a study of sixty of the world's greatest concert halls was conducted with particular attention being paid to size, shape, and reverberation time. Abramovitz adapted the merits of the best of those sixty and added several innovations...