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...Antonio Saura, 34, is a slender Castilian who abandoned surrealism for the most tortured expressionism seen in present-day Spanish art. He sprays cynicism as he sprays his oils: "A renaissance of the arts in Spain today?" says he. "Oh come now. It is an art of protest against officialdom. The present cultural level is pretty grim. The artist must sell abroad if he is to survive...
Pinpoint Precision. Coolness is still one of the man's most notable characteristics. Last week, as the Asian crisis bore down on him, Admiral Grant Sharp, now 58, well-decorated and as slender and hard as a torpedo (5 ft. 7 in., 147 Ibs.), described his activities and explained imperturbably: "These things are all thought out ahead of time. It is the culmination of a lot of planning, and the actual execution is fairly simple." True enough. But had he executed his orders with anything less than pinpoint precision, Sharp could well have triggered a disaster...
Chancy was one of Schwerner's most helpful aides. He was a slender Meridian Negro lad who had dropped out of high school as a sophomore, became a plasterer, eventually joined CORE. When COFO called for volunteer instructors for the Ohio training course, Chancy went with Schwerner...
...richly wooded. But what is most impressive is not the way the houses look from the outside but the other way around; and inside-out, the view is spectacular. No two of the 550 approximately 300-sq.-ft. patios are the same: the Frederick Bradleys' holds a slender Japanese maple and a jungle of flowers, while the John Hamrens have surfaced theirs with pebbles, Irish moss, lava rocks and a fountain ("We did have fish in there," says Mrs. Hamren, "but we have four cats, and now we don't have fish in there"). Other families found...
Mining in Canada seems to follow a pattern of seven years of fat, seven years of lean. The great uranium boom pumped $10 billion into the Canadian economy between 1950 and 1957, then fizzled. Now, after seven fairly slender years, a new mining rush is on. Some 900 companies are drilling for metals and oil from New Brunswick to British Columbia...