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...Keyes's story is about King Philip IV of Spain, who was born in 1605, died in 1665, and presided, an irresolute, unassertive and undistinguished monarch, over the sunset of the Spanish empire. There is not much story to tell, but Mrs. Keyes stuffs the holes in her plot with dates, names, panoply, history lessons, fashion shows, and archly veiled allusions to sex at the castle level...
...Before sunset the first day, 2,500 tourists had swarmed past the brick garden wall that he had laid himself, the intricate rockeries and the stream that he had contrived, by means of pumps, to recirculate uphill. Then they wandered through the rooms of Chartwell, the manor house in Kent where Sir Winston Churchill happily wrote, painted, puttered and sometimes governed from 1922 onward. Bought in 1947 by friends and presented to the National Trust, Chartwell passed to the nation at his death early last year. Now, for four shillings, the public may visit the place where, as he wrote...
...lunar night, were even more remarkable. As the sun slowly sank toward the moon's horizon, the lengthening shadows cast by Surveyor itself appeared with startling clarity in shots of nearby terrain. In one picture, the 10-ft.-high spaceship's shadow stretched 50 ft. away. At sunset, the camera, aimed directly at the solar fireball, captured the brilliant halo of the sun's corona-usually invisible on earth because of the terrestrial atmosphere. After nightfall, Surveyor successfully took the last of the 10,338 photographs it has shot since June 2, when it settled...
...lights, which will blaze from about an hour before sunset to an hour before sunrise, were installed by the Cambridge Electric Company, and will cost the M.D.C. about $500 per year to maintain. They may cost some unwary frisbee player a cracked skull...
High in the hills above Hollywood's Sunset Strip, a brick path worn slippery as slate leads to a sturdy, plain studio. Inside lives the man who last week was the most talked-about artist in all Los Angeles, 38-year-old Edward Kienholz. To keep in line the crowds thronging to see his work, the Los Angeles County Museum took the precaution of canceling all days off and vacations for its guards...