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...Arctic has a peculiar sense of justice. For every storm in the dead of winter, there is a calm; for every predator, a victim. For the six month day, there is the six month night. Syd Justin knew that, but it didn't stop his stomach from fluttering with anticipation when the small notice in the Edmonton Sun caught his attention...
...employed a different format from their previous efforts. For instance, instead of being a collection of songs calling to mind a particular impression, Wish You Were Here revolves around a central piece called "Shine on You Crazy Diamond". This twenty-minute ode to the group's former leader, Syd Barrett, which opens the first side of the album, is a biographical piece tracing Barrett's experience as a member of the group and since his departure...
...playing fields of East Hampton, L.I. Invited to join George Plimpton, Peter Mathiessen and Wilfrid Sheed on the writers' team in an annual charity softball game between writers and artists, Poet McCarthy went three for three against strong opposition that included Fabric Designer Boris Kroll and Painters Syd Solomon and Jimmy Ernst. One line drive could have been a home run if McCarthy had not stumbled at first base. His team went down 10-1, but Gene did not finish. When a pinch runner replaced him in the fifth inning, everyone laughed at the public address announcement: "McCarthy...
...King" Clancy, Syd Howe...
Assigned to TIME'S Science section for the past 13 years, Syd, like other staffers in our specialized departments, has had ample opportunity to be both pupil and teacher. She has worked on 17 cover stories, and this week's is her eleventh on space travel. Her job last week involved digesting and summarizing complex NASA flight plans, scientific studies of the moon and background dispatches from our own correspondents. After the story was written and edited, her task was to make sure that the dozens of facts and figures in it were accurate. Throughout, she kept...