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...almost 900-year-old dungeon in the Tower of London, where historic heroes like Sir Walter Raleigh and villains like Guy Fawkes were once imprisoned, was jammed with the usual crowd of summer tourists last week. Suddenly, the three-ton 18th century Royal George cannon, a favorite exhibit with children, exploded with a deafening roar. The blast hurled the bronze gun barrel five feet into the air, showered bystanders with lethal splinters from the oak carriage, and blew out windows and a door 90 feet above...
...present, the Soviets produce 500,000 trucks per year, but 90% of these are light models of three-ton capacity or less. They badly need a modern plant such as the Kama River facility, which would turn out 150,000 huge diesel-driven trucks annually. They could also use an infusion of Western European skills to improve the engineering of their trucks, whose tendency to break down has long been a grim joke among the Russians...
...Kenya, but just try keeping the old hunter away from his guns. During the first break in the official proceedings, President Tito of Yugoslavia rushed pell-mell into the wilderness to take a few crack shots at East African wildlife. At the end of his safari, Tito felled a three-ton male rhino, a 21-ton buffalo and a "huge" lion...
Alien Atmosphere. The three-ton Venice Landscape,* currently on display at Manhattan's Whitney Museum, locates three 7-ft.-tall bronze monsters on a mechanistic version of a Giacometti plain sown with half-spheres, cylinders, 16 round holes and 16 matching pegs-a symbolic landscape, to Trova, of "the world today with its IBM machines." Decorating his figures are gizmos from his large assortment of "found objects," which he picks up in the antique shops around St. Louis' Gaslight Square. A brace of oxygen tanks perches on the shoulders of the center figure, while a shower nozzle, stainless...
...Three-Ton Landscapes. There are few nudes to titillate the senses, and commonplace pop objects are generally absent. What has rushed in to fill the void is geometry, in so many varied forms that even Euclid would be puzzled. Sculpture, in this exhibition at least, has lost its Renaissance meaning and turned into ideological architecture. Big, bold, brightly colored shapes keep turning corners in the most subjectless, unliterary and unsensual art that the 20th century has up to the present produced...