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...Snow Fire, Whitney...
...Last week two television newsmen were wounded. With the South Vietnamese now in full control of press regulations, conditions are becoming more difficult. Credentials are being issued for only limited periods and are lifted at the slightest provocation. After an argument with a Vietnamese province chief last week, Craig Whitney of the New York Times and Peter Osnos of the Washington Post had to watch as their tires were shot out and their film was exposed...
Donn Potts is another artist who feels that cars belong in galleries. In fact, his cars have been on display in The Whitney Museum in New York. The main work, entitled "My First Car," is not so much Pop art as it is modern art. It consists of four sculptural units: "The Basic Chassis" made of wood, "The Master Chassis" made of half-inch steel tubing, and "The Stainless Steel Body" and "The Fabric Steel Body" mounted on dummy chassis. Resembling closely the sleek racers that are present on the drag strips every Sunday, "My First Car" is an exercise...
...spectacle 2001 was packing in aficionados at movie theaters months before Apollo 8, the film gained a prophetic impact after man reached the moon. Even among the scientific community, such astonishing celestial phenomena as supernovae and "black holes" have become a subject for metaphysical conjecture. Harvard Astronomer Charles A. Whitney, writing in his 1971 book The Discovery of Our Galaxy, suggests that black holes might be "the passageways to another universe," a possibility that throws him back on the language of religion. "When I discuss such subjects with my friends and family," Whitney writes, "I feel as though I were...
Three of the eight defendants were alleged to have been major shareholders in Four Seasons, but not, wonder of wonders, among the big losers. In fact, says U.S. Attorney Whitney North Seymour, knowing full well that Four Seasons was worth nowhere near as much as they publicly claimed, these insiders sold off large chunks of their holdings through numbered accounts at Walston. Clark alone was accused of pocketing more than $9,000,000, most of which is believed to be stashed in Europe. Andersen officials promised to "vigorously" defend their employees in the case; Clark and Miller were not talking...