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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incident concerning Olympic athletes from Taiwan is the sort of action we have come to expect from tin-pot Third World dictatorships. For the first time in my life I feel truly ashamed to be a Canadian...
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...their own forces, Fraser has ordered a $15 billion increase in Australian defense spending over the next five years. But Fraser also wants the alliance with the U.S. redefined to take account of future Russian actions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Toward that end, he has proposed some sort of four-power Pacific cooperation embracing the U.S., China, Japan and Australia-a form of local détentein Asia...
...probably be quite different from anything found on earth. Martian organisms are likely to be microscopic in size. They would also have to be capable of extracting life-giving moisture from the planet's arid soil and atmosphere. Soffen believes they might do this by means of some sort of biological pump or natural siphon. "Martian critters have had billions of years to adapt," he explains. Somewhere in the process of evolution they must have had to face-and overcome-the need for water. "So what they developed is something called a water pump," theorizes Soffen. "They found...
...delightful shows that opened last week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. One, "Paintings by New England Provincial Artists, 1775-1800," organized by Art Historian Nina Fletcher Little, illustrates the limner tradition with 76 paintings by 34 artists, backed up with domestic objects of the sort that appears in those stiff, poignant effigies-chairs, painted floorcloths, a child's coral-garnished silver whistle. The other show, "Copley, Stuart, West," deals with the first three American-born painters to escape from this matrix and enter the European arena in order to become, in the full sense...