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Hordes of 52-ton tanks churned up choking waves of orange dust over California's Mojave Desert. Oil-drum devices released mushroom clouds to simulate atomic attack. In the 105° heat, smoke generators threw up acrid screens. Fighter-bombers singed the sand with the blast of their afterburners. The normally green Colorado River turned brown with machine-swirled mud, black with slicks of oil. Helicopters chattered, machine guns clattered and men swore...
...General Electric, for example, architects turned a huge dome inside out, revealing its supporting lining of intersticed steel so that its overall look suggests tripes à la mode de G.E. IBM, in a glorious defiance of sanity, has set what appears to be a 50-ton egg on a nest of plastic in the tops of metal trees. Johnson's Wax has suspended a huge gold clam over a blue pool inside six slender white pylons that rise high and flare into unearthly petals. Eastman Kodak has built a plaza under an undulating roof of thin-shell concrete that...
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY-Low Memorial Library, Broadway at 116th. A collection of Chinese art objects-ceramics, bronzes, jades and sculptures-is dominated by a half-ton Buddha head in stone, described by Art History Professor Jane G. Mahler as "one of the most important pieces ever to come out of China." Through June...
...received damned good instruction from professors who could not weigh their monographs by the ton. Their production consisted of inspiring students to think. I wouldn't trade my experiences in their classrooms for a thousand monographs...
This week a Peruvian congressional commission is expected to propose a series of emergency relief measures, including a moratorium on federal taxes. Even if the government exempted fish-meal processors from all taxes, their average $9-a-ton profit (v. an average ,$20 in 1963) would still not cover interest on the industry's $74 million debt...