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GALLERY OF MODERN ART-Columbus Circle at 59th. Many artists begin with realism and wind up with abstractions; reversing the process, Frenchman Jean Hélion first earned a reputation for his nonobjective paintings and then turned to nature. Sixty works trace his interesting development. Through...
...checkpoint on the outskirts of the capital, then set guards to forbid the movement of traffic in or out of the city. Without a fight, the rebels occupied communication centers in the capital, burst into the office of Premier Nguyen Khanh, and arrested several duty officers but found no trace of the Premier. It was the coup d'etat that many had dreaded but hoped would not happen...
...museums and private industry. Some smaller museums sometimes have to accept a big dose of advertising along with exhibits of doubtful scholarship. By contrast, Chicago's booming Museum of Science and Industry can invite companies to supply elaborate displays that meet its main educational requirement, which is to trace the sequence of an industrial development from the basic scientific discovery to its future applications. Even though they get credit only in modest plaques, firms are eager to respond; the museum's 14 acres of floor space house $25 million worth of exhibits paid for by 50 major...
...that only about 50 cases had been reported until McKusick's Hopkins team moved into Pennsylvania. There they found proof of at least 49 cases since 1860, with 24 still living. Most exciting, genetically at least: the Amish keep such exact genealogical records that McKusick was able to trace all 60 parents to whom the 49 were born. And all were descended from a single immigrant and his wife...
More cases appeared in scattered barracks. As usual, the medics could not trace the paths by which infection spread. Thousands of recruits had meningococci in their throats, but did not get sick. There was no way to predict which few men would develop a life-threatening infection that would race through the bloodstream and attack their meninges-the covering of the brain and spinal cord...