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...know it on earth can exist on the moon and planets. The answer is yes. Man can extend the domain of terrestrial life throughout the solar system." If Paine's flat assertion sounded somewhat premature, or unduly optimistic, there was good cause. Apollo 10 was the sort of flight that can inspire even cautious men to let their words take wing...
...plaster cast. We keep him there until the wound heals," said Premier George Papadopoulos, the colonel who is strongman of the current Greek military regime. He was only trying to explain why civil and political liberties in Greece remain suspended under martial law. But it was the sort of metaphor that appealed quite naturally to Assemblagist Vlassis Canairis, 40, who studied medicine at Athens University before turning to the practice of painting and sculpture in 1950. The exhibition that he has mounted in Athens' small "New Gallery" illustrates its vividness, though not in the way that Papadopoulos intended...
...years since his first Guide was published, "the normal Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Middletown, U.S.A." to whom it is frankly addressed, have come to regard Temple Fielding as a sort of traveler's Dr. Spock?a role he relishes. "If Temp has a cause, and I think he has one," says his chief assistant, Joe Raff, "it is to ease the passage of the traveler, to assuage his doubts...
Kinetic Tangle. Paik's own contribution to the exhibit was an antic collaboration with Charlotte Moorman, the cellist from Little Rock, Ark. In 1967, Paik (pronounced Pike) and Moorman established themselves as a sort of cerebral John Lennon-Yoko Ono act when Charlotte, topless, played Paik's composition Opera Sextronique. Again last week, Charlotte let her concert gown fall to her waist, but this time her breasts were covered by two 3-in. TV sets. Explained Paik with a broad smile: "By using TV as a bra, the most intimate belonging of a human being...
Without these financial arguments the high fees and admissions process would be seen as glaring bias and pressure might build to turn Harvard into a merit-based institution. That would be the sort of place, as Dean Bender pointed out, which the two Roosevelts would hardly have been "admitted to or would have wanted to enter. . . . " This last, of course, is crucial. Bender makes it quite clear that -- financial arguments aside -- Harvard perceives as its purpose the education of the real leaders of tomorrow. And with firm sociological insight, it recognizes that potential leaders are most likely...