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Died. Richard Taylor, 67, cartoonist whose drawings of bored, heavy-lidded, cocktail-party sophisticates have been a feature of The New Yorker since 1935 and in recent years of Playboy as well; of cancer; in West Redding, Conn...
Swiss-born New Yorker Franchise Grossen knots wool and sisal into shields of intricate scalloping. The shaggy tapestries of Poland's Magdalena Abakanowicz have the look of untanned animal hides. The loose, three-dimensional web of New Yorker Sherri Smith's Volcano no. 10 hangs clear of the wall so it can be seen from either side. Paris-based Nebraskan Sheila Hicks abandoned the loom altogether to create her modular The Principal Wife, eight individual units that hang from a rod and can be added to indefinitely...
...last week's editorials did not represent an abrupt change for The New Yorker, even Shawn concedes that their tone may have revealed "deeper disquiet." In Shawn's view, this was because the events warranted it. "It was," he said, "one of the grimmest weeks that the country has ever lived through." Then he smiled slightly. "Despite that, there's also a lot of fun in the issue." Dick Nixon may not think so, unless he is in the market for a Rolls...
...Nixon was written by Richard N. Goodwin, a former aide to both John and Robert Kennedy, and a contributor to the magazine since 1964; the one on youth was written by Roger Angell, 49, a New Yorker staffer since...
...persistent chemical called Picloram and 2,4-di-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, causes leaves to shower from trees within weeks. Strongest and most heavily used is "Orange," a mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-tri-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, whose dangers were widely publicized last winter in a New Yorker article by Thomas Whiteside. Last month use of 2,4,5-T was suspended in Viet Nam and strictly limited in the U.S. Reason: the herbicide, together with its contaminant, has caused birth defects in laboratory mice. Some investigators see an alarming if unproved correlation between the defoliant...