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DIED. Richard Stankiewicz, 60, sculptor and an innovator of assemblage who reclaimed flotsam and jetsam from what he called "the sea of junk around us" and welded it into irreverent, often witty, anthropomorphic or zoomorphic constructions that nonetheless were possessed of a cohesive, entirely unrandom vision; of cancer; in Worthington, Mass...
...1930s animal hunter Frank Buck. Mounted like an old Republic serial, the slap-happy adventure show boasts a congenial leading man in Bruce Boxleitner. He is required to trap all manner of jungle animals without doing them physical harm and, not incidentally, battle Nazis, Asian warlords and assorted jetsam that floats past Malaya...
...language is sometimes painfully sophomoric, the message scattershot and blurred, one' has to admire Papas for attempting the overwhelming task of staging her own show. While the production carries flaws aplenty, it still makes for pleasant relief from the hackneyed productions of traditional shows that constitute the flotsam and jetsam of Harvard theatre. There's much naivete in Hair, but there's a lot of creativity too. Papas & Co., including the staff of the Institute, have to be admired for making a start toward establishing a tradition of orginial shows that try to convey a real message. It's only...
Thus the problems of the Great Lakes are not solved because the beach at Storing State Park on Lake Erie is officially opened again for the first time since 1961, or because the Cuyahoga River, while gray and sulky looking, is relatively free from oil and jetsam, or because the water treatment plant in Chicago is having fewer taste and odor problems. Says EPA's Swain: "We still have a long way to go before we solve the problems of toxic substances. Then there is a whole series of new environmental issues." Among them: sodium from the salt used...
...considered front-line troops. Their air force consists of five squadrons of American-made F-5Es and obsolescent British Lightnings of 1950s vintage. Their navy consists of a converted U.S. Coast Guard cutter, three Jaguar-class PT boats and a few other bits of flotsam and jetsam. When they look south, the Saudis are alarmed by the rising Soviet influence across the Red Sea in Ethiopia, where there are now 16,000 Cuban soldiers supporting the leftist regime in Addis Ababa, and about 1,000 Russians. The Marxist regime of South Yemen, which has occasionally made raids across the Saudi...