Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...review of Andrew Turnbull's book Thomas Wolfe [Feb. 9]: As Tom Wolfe's brother, I feel I knew him better than anyone living. You refer to Tom's attempt to "pin down the Great American Novel" as "never getting beyond his barbaric yawp." I feel sure that hundreds of thousands and more-who have read Tom's "Promise of America" and "Credo," both in You Can't Go Home Again-would disagree. This same multitude of readers of Tom's books would also take issue with (as I do) the statement "that...
Army in Viet Nam (USARV) headquarters at suburban Long Binh. Though the initial damage was light, no one could be sure that the Communist attack was not a softening-up prelude to another major drive. Compared with the brutal onslaught of the Tet offensive, however, last weekend's thrusts seemed mild...
...pavilion roofed over with vaults. Visitors will first en ter a reception area, then pass under an arcade to the permanent collection, which will be composed initially of only 100 choice objects. The exterior walls of the museum will be solid for security reasons, but Kahn has made sure the interior will be light and airy. He picked the barrel-vault roof not for its classical associations but because of its structural strength. Such vaults can easily span 100 ft. between supports, allowing museum spaces to be open and flexible...
SELENOLOGY Water on the Moon? For a decade, McDonnell Douglas Geologist Jack Green has stoutly argued that there is water on the moon. Not free-flowing, gurgling water, to be sure, but water that is chemically locked within rock. Now, with the aid of a half-century-old observation, he reported to an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics meeting in Los Angeles last week, he has found additional evidence of lunar water...
...evaporating tubing for aluminum; Detroit's Michigan Utilities Co. has begun converting to aluminum tubing for connections to gas appliances. A good deal of the switching is impelled not by copper shortages but by the rising price of the metal. And however the strike ends, the price seems sure to go only...