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...Tamed & Tranquil. The very mention of its name still triggers theoretical arguments about public v. private power. Yet debates over its theory fade to futility when set against the real-life changes in the valley...
...Skylark radioed the submarine base at New London, Conn., reported that the submarine had been out of touch for an hour and 47 minutes. Even this created no desperate alarm. Perhaps Harvey, his communications out, was simply riding out heavy surface seas in the tranquil depths. But by midafternoon, with Thresher silent for six hours, Navy patrol planes began circling the area. At 3:35 a hot line buzzed in the Pentagon office of Admiral George Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations. He learned for the first time that Thresher had disappeared. Within half an hour President Kennedy...
...danger, he wept over the sorrows of others. A child of the House of Commons, he became its father. Accustomed to the hardships of battle, he had no distaste for pleasure. Now his stately ship of life, having weathered the severest storms of a troubled century, is anchored in tranquil waters...
...began to paint hallucinatory presences peering through masking blue planes. Color began to operate as symbol: orange for passion, blue for infinity. Departure, done in 1961, contains a dismembered, bony elbow reminiscent of his maimed early figures, but now serving as one of the presences, like intruders into a tranquil world, that sweep in from the painting's edges to perform a ritual in the center...
There is still plenty of opposition to women ministers in Sweden, and last week ' Barbro was refused permission to preach in the cathedral of Linkoping. Another handicap is her tranquil good looks. "This is not a suitable attribute for a priest," thundered one church magazine after her ordination. "Her beauty might awaken wrong feelings in male parishioners...