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Under Dirksen, Senate Republicans have worked and voted in a unity unseen in recent years. On issues of national security, Dirksen and his Republicans have gone down the line with President Kennedy. Thus, when Democratic liberals recently filibustered against the Administration's satellite communication bill - on the ground that it was a Government giveaway to private enterprise - Dirksen rounded up the Republican votes necessary to invoke cloture. "There were," he says, "questions of national security as well as the progress being made by the Soviet Union. Quite aside from the basic problem of space communication, other appeals could...
...Unseen Until Finished. Aubusson was making tapestries as long as 500 years ago, but in the igth century it turned to making carpets, with only a few remaining hand looms turning out commercial copies of famous tapestries. Since Lurcat revived the art of the tapissier, Aubusson has seven workshops turning out the work of modern designers on hand looms. For his own works Lurcat has shunned the standard "library'' of 14,500 different tones of wool and adopted a more practical 13 colors; he has also restored the old 14th century weave of six threads per centimeter...
...returning him safely to the earth." At that moment the U.S. was behind in the race to get men into space. The Russians had already shot Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on an orbit around the earth; blazing a trail for future space travelers, they had taken pictures of the unseen face of the moon. U.S. Astronaut Alan Shepard had been forced to settle for a brief 302-mile arc that was sadly short of orbit...
...landscapes, portraits and still lifes that are flecked with fragments of earthy humor and yet are generally bathed in sadness. A Brook painting does not scream for attention: the colors are usually subdued and subtly graded, the mood is muted, and the technique is so sure as to be unseen, like an invisible seam...
...Miracle Worker is Teacher Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), who took the hand of little Helen Keller (Patty Duke), and with fierce patience, put within the child's grasping fingers the meaning of an unseen, unheard, unspoken world...