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...Nuenen (The Potato Eaters) for Antwerp and Paris, his palette brightens. When he reaches Aries in the south of France it bursts into the brilliant light of high noon (Sunflowers, The Harvest, his own Yellow House). Van Gogh spent the last two months of his life at Auvers-sur-Oise, there painted skies deepening with twilight. Through June...
Though the payoffs in transplant sur gery are still distressingly few, hopes remain high; both the number and vari ety of transplant operations are increasing. Trouble is, the human body has a habit of trying to reject any tissue or organism that is foreign to its own chemistry. Only with transplants between identical twins is there reasonable hope of long-term success. Among other people, the rejection reaction is always present, though it varies in intensity.* To some Manhattan researchers, this very variation offered new hope for transplant success. In Science, the in vestigators report a new technique for predicting...
Such developments are hardly sur-surprising. The unwieldy size of a course required of all students, differences among students in ability and preparation, disagreements among faculty members over methods of presentation and the exact selection of the "great books" and significant scientific problems to be covered could all be expected to encourage the proliferation of lower-level Gen Ed courses beyond the four originally contemplated...
...conservative Morgenbladet called it a "slap in the face" to such responsible test ban proponents as Macmillan and Kennedy. The New York Herald Tribune held that the prize's esteem had slipped through association with "a placarding peacenik." As for Pauling, who got the news at his Big Sur, Calif., retreat, he remembered that the test ban had that morning gone into effect. "I thought," said he quietly, "that it was a nice day for the committee to make the announcement...
...Assure Peace. What made Paques a spy? It seems to have been a mixture of anti-Americanism and pacifism. The son of a hairdresser in Burgundy's Chalon-sur-Saone, Paques was educated at the elite Ecole Normale Superieure, where he majored in Italian. The outbreak of World War II took him to a broadcasting job for the Free French in North Africa. It was there that he is supposed to have developed a deep hatred of the U.S.; subsequently he blamed American policy for the loss of Algeria...