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...stability and unity of Justinian's reign, simultaneously conveying the sense of imcompleteness, anxiety, and aspiration crucial to its function as a place of worship. Palladio's Pallazzo Chiericati in Venice serves a double function as a private house and a border to a public square. Louis Kahn's Salk Institute in southern California provides a communal framework in which scientists can carry out individual research...
...Scopes trial of 1925, still insisted upon taking the stand in order to make his antievolution position crystal clear, thereby exposing himself to national (and historical) ridicule. And there was Oveta Culp Hobby who, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1955, explained the shortage of the new Salk polio vaccine: "No one could have foreseen its great acclaim." And there is always Richard Nixon, the apostle of perfect clarity, who at times has seemed hell-bent on clarifying himself out of existence...
...only legitimate child, by Dancer Olga Koklova (he died in 1975); Maya, by Marie-Thérèse Walter; and Claude and Paloma, by Franchise Gilot. One of the few paramours or wives with any pretension to intellectuality, Gilot (now married to famed U.S. Scientist Dr. Jonas Salk) was co-author of a bitter book, Life with Picasso, in which she calls him a manipulator of human beings: "He loved only one thing-his painting. Not his women, not his children." Gilot broke with Picasso in 1953. Jacqueline Roque, the aspiring poet he married in 1961, was described...
...long as radio shrinks give only chatty-type advice rather than formal diagnoses over the air waves, the association will probably not act against them. After all, why cut down a group of emerging celebrities who are beginning to give the profession more clout with the public? Says Lee Salk, resident psychologist on ABC's Good Morning, America: "There's a tremendous demand for responsible professionals to use the media. If they don't, other people will...
...there as Princess Grace of Monaco. Also present were Cinema Bluebloods Gregory Peck and Cary Grant, who joined 1,600 others in Los Angeles to honor Sinatra as Variety Clubs International Humanitarian of the Year. Past winners-talk about high society-have included Albert Schweitzer, George Washington Carver, Jonas Salk and Winston Churchill. Accepting the award from his onetime costar, Sinatra was far from humble. "To Princess Grace and her royal crown," he joked, whisky in hand, "and to my Crown Royal...