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...This was followed in 1810 by A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China with 50 illustrations. The influence on building, landscaping and interior decoration of these books was almost explosive. A cult of Indian architecture arose, and country seats in such unlikely places as Gloucestershire sprang up disguised as Hindu temples, inspired by the Daniells' sketches...
After only 5½ minutes, with a fourth down on the Wisconsin 13, U.S.C. Coach John McKay sprang a clever trap on the Badgers, who were playing a man-to-man pass defense. Trojan Tackle Ron Butcher came scurrying on field with a rarely used play. "IG84-weak tackle look," Quarterback Beathard muttered in the huddle. The Trojans lined up over the ball-and, way out on the right wing, a U.S.C. back casually stepped up into the line. At the same instant. Left End Bedsole took a step backward, thereby making Tackle Butcher a legal pass receiver-for that...
...sprang from the Anglo-U.S. crisis over cancellation of the bug-ridden Skybolt missile, and the U.S. offer to supply Britain and France with the proved Polaris (TIME, Dec. 28). The one Allied leader who unreservedly welcomed the Polaris offer was Harold Macmillan, who by thus keeping a separate nuclear deterrent for Britain had saved his own neck...
...mile race by 1 min. Scotland's Jimmy Clark, who needed a victory in South Africa to beat Hill for the title, almost got it: with the race three-quarters over, he led by 25 sec.-only to be forced to the pits when his grass green Lotus sprang an oil leak. Hill's victory (four firsts, two seconds, one fourth in nine races) marked the first time that a British driver has won the world championship behind the wheel of a British car-and Clark, winding up second in the final standings with his Lotus, made...
...critics were baiting their prodigy traps. After he made his November debut with the Metropolitan Opera they sprang: "hand to mouth" conducting said one, adding that Maazel is a martinet whose merciless, metronomic beat is in fact, a mask that covers weakness and insecurity. Such talk may have momentarily quieted Maazel, but it did not shake his confidence. Last week at Philharmonic Hall, he led a Beethoven Fifth Symphony in which fate really did seem to knock at the door; under Maazel. the horns spoke high German, and the double basses, which before had hidden shyly in the hall...