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...close of the memorial service, all 243 foreign dignitaries filed past an urn containing Ohira's ashes. Each made a low, formal bow, the traditional Japanese gesture of respect, except Carter, who barely nodded his head. But the Japanese, not expecting a newcomer to follow protocol, were not upset by Carter's performance. Later, however, Carter clearly startled Ohira's widow with a display of American informality while paying a call on her. He greeted her with a kiss, then slipped his arm around her waist when leading her into the Ohira family home...
Harvard will host four major women's events this season. Today the team has home advantage against the other colleges in the New England Women's Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEWISA) Invitational. The Victorian Coffee Urn will take place November 6 and 7 prior to the final NEWISA Invitational, which will be November 14. The last race hosted by the women's team is the Three-Crew Team Race, November...
...computer-enhanced Saturn pho tos taken by Pioneer were far better than any pictures of the planet shot through earthbound telescopes. More details of the famous rings were evident, and for the first time the bands formed by the yellow-and orange-hued clouds enveloping Sat urn could be clearly seen. Still, compared with the spectacular shots of Jupiter and its moons transmitted earlier this year by the twin Voyager spacecraft, the Pioneer pictures were disappointing. The difference is that Pioneer is equipped with a relatively crude camera-like instrument called an imaging photopolarimeter; the Voyagers have far more sophisticated...
...extended his ideal of the family to include groups of objects as well as people. Once one has been through the show, the props of his still lifes, which were also the normal appurtenances of his home life, become like familiar faces: the patriarchal mass of his copper water urn, perched on its squat tripod; the white teapot with its rakish finial; the painted china that signaled his growing prosperity, and so on down to the last stoneware daubière, all signifying a world in which the eye could work without alienation or even strain...
...include other materials. Any attempt to decorate it with art nouveau or similar elements, no matter how costly, cannot hide the deadly ugliness; even tombstones seem more lively. Thus Philip Johnson, as depicted on the cover of TIME, looks rather like an undertaker displaying just another type of luxury urn...