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...eyes that guide them brood with the sad sensitivity of a romantic poet. A chipper, Groucho Marxist mustache contradicts both hands and eyes. They all belong to Printmaker Antonio Frasconi, 44, one of the U.S.'s foremost woodcut artists. In February, more than 80 of his whorled and scratch-lined works (see opposite page) will begin a two-year long tour of U.S. museums. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, the show demonstrates Frasconi at his versatile best, running from bright, bird-wreathed seascapes to dark commentary on Franco's Spain...
...altiplano (high plain), a vast, barren Andean plateau averaging 12,000 ft. in altitude. Of the 75%, a few tin miners produce the nation's major export; the rest, mostly Quechua and Aymara Indians who cannot even speak Spanish, spend brief lives struggling to scratch a living from the stony soil...
Handicaps will be assigned on the basis of an individual's racing experience. The varsity cross-country team starts from scratch, the freshmen runners get a two-minute advantage, and others are assigned handicaps according to the track coaches' estimate of their skill...
...appear and answer questions, then he becomes simply a display--a dancing bear," Howe said. "It would be irresponsible for students to have him come just to watch the bear stand up and scratch himself...
...plastic lines Spencer also makes. Spencer received several other suitors before settling on Gulf. Mrs. Helen Spencer, the largest shareholder, with 14% of the 3,000,000 outstanding shares, particularly liked what she felt was Gulf's "empathy" toward the firm that her late husband started from scratch...