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...procession of tourists that begins this time of year to swarm in ever increasing numbers through London's great British Museum, the famed Elgin Marbles may be the museum's best-known treasure. But equally magnificent in their way are the bas-reliefs (see color pages) from the palace of Assurbanipal, King of Assyria in the 7th century B.C. These shallow tablets recall an empire that once included Egypt on the south and Asia Minor on the north, with all the Fertile Crescent in between...
Despite all the heady talk about sending men into space in the not too distant future, many a practical problem remains far from solution. One of the most formidable : protecting space travelers from the deadly radiation that will swarm about them...
...scramble for new oil has attracted a swarm of scrappy independent wildcatters - to the great concern of the industry's giants. The independents are drilling all over the world, cutting prices, moving into long-established markets - thanks to a tanker surplus that provides them with dirt-cheap transport. All told, some 250 companies, many of them either new or making their first ventures abroad, are searching for oil in more than 80 countries...
...first part of the ballet. Choreographer Balanchine tells the story of how the rug was woven somewhere in the desert: a swarm of ballerinas, supported by male dancers passing for nomad tribesmen, weave an elaborate cat's cradle of streamers, their movements as intricate and precise as the shuttling of a power loom. Then the story moves on to the Persian court, and the rest of the ballet is merely a "court entertainment,'' a kind of Balanchine variety show. In a swirl of color, foreign visitors to the court strut the stage dressed in everything from...
...Anne's tea-sipping cronies-was all work, although his peers regarded it as play. He produced artificial pearls from mussels he kept in the bottom of his fish pond. While Anne plunked at her pianoforte, he listened until he fixed the exact note hummed by a swarm of bees (treble A above middle C). Obliging friends and zookeepers plied him with odd creatures for dissection. Only with reluctance did he take time for his patients. "I must go and earn this damn'd guinea," he complained, "or I shall be sure to want it tomorrow...