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...living in two rooms on the fourth floor of the Hamilton for two years. The apartment is a horror. In the bathroom, peeling paint drips leaking water from the toilet in the bathroom above; a film of water containing feces gleams dully on the floor. Roaches and other bugs swarm over the walls, the bathtub and sink. A rotting pipe in the corner has a dual purpose: it doubles as the children's "tree;" because Mary is afraid to allow the children outside, the youngsters' occasionally exercise by climbing the pipe when...
...output was huge. Between Klee's birth in 1879 and his death from a wasting disease in a Swiss sanatorium 60 years later, he produced over 9,000 works. Perhaps one could no more put on a "definitive" Klee show than fix the shape of a swarm of bees. But the one at the Haus der Kunst in Munich has made a valiant attempt, mustering 537 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints to memorialize the 30th anniversary of his death...
Narrow Escape. Research on pasture mosquitoes can be grueling. Charles H. Schaefer, director of the University of California Mosquito Control Research Laboratory, recalls a recent field trip he took with a coworker. "As we stepped into the pasture, black clouds of mosquitoes swarmed into the air. They landed on us by the thousands. When we tried to run back to the car, we got caught in the barbed-wire fence and they flew into our ears, noses and mouths." The scientists finally escaped the choking swarm by closing themselves in their...
...long after American troops entered Cambodia, the usual complement of tourists, strollers and protesters in Washington's Lafayette Square were startled to see a swarm of black limousines pull out of the White House gates, wheel around the corner and descend on A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters. President Nixon, maps and charts in tow, had come to explain his Cambodian policy to the executive labor council. He thus made a parlor call in a continuing courtship that Republicans hope will erode the Democratic Party's traditional base among working men and women...
Before putting earthquake controls into practice, seismologists are striving to perfect their predicting techniques. They are making progress. In June, Menlo Park scientists correctly assured worried county officials that a "swarm" of hundreds of small tremors near San Francisco would not threaten the city. The Japanese have made successful forecasts days and weeks in advance. One measure of their accuracy was the unhappiness caused among members of the hotel and sightseeing industries at Matsushiro in 1967, when seismologists accurately predicted that a small swarm would be followed by a series of larger tremors. Such predictions, the merchants complained, were...