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...York dealer and longtime friend. Although Chagall does not seek them out, he now finds himself engulfed with the monumental public commissions that rarely come to crown the career of a great artist. Only in his 60s did he learn to stain glass. Since then, in a torrent of production, he has done two windows for the Metz Cathedral, followed by twelve windows for the Hadassah Medical Center's synagogue in Jerusalem. Last fall he finished a memorial glass panel at the United Nations for the late Dag Hammarskjold and another for the Rockefeller family's church...
...from their base on Guam, 2,600 miles away. En route, two of the $8,000,000 planes collided while refueling off the Philippines, and over the target area another plane was unable to release its bombload because of a mechanical failure. The remaining bombers unloaded a torrent of high explosives-270 tons in all-on the tangled forest floor. Then they wheeled for home, confident that they had dispersed the Viet Cong and killed many. But had they...
...sheer pyrotechnics and power, there had never been a rocket launch like it. From Complex 40 at Cape Kennedy last week, Air Force Titan IIIC, the heaviest and most powerful rocket system ever launched, blasted off in a mighty torrent of flame and smoke, and with a deafening roar soared out of sight. Though U.S. hopes to close the rocket gap with the Soviet Union rode on the new Titan, the competition this time was not so much international as it was between solid rocket fuels and liquids...
...Wall Street, they began calling it "the open-mouth policy." Out of Washington last week poured a torrent of talk about the economy, clearly designed to halt the stock market slide and to counter the impression made by William McChesney Martin Jr. in his "1920s speech" three weeks ago. President Johnson, who often uses the jawbone technique to get things done, called upon just about everyone on his team - with the understandable exception of Bill Martin - to soothe Wall Street's jittery nerves and hymn the economy's health. It was quite a performance, and it worked...
Nazemann goes into a spin and walks all the night around the city. The camera zeroes in on him moving through the crowds in Times Square, alone despite the human torrent around him. He is out of touch with any society when he crosses street after street against the traffic lights...