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Hopeful of finding a place for art even in the market, the Uris brothers last month installed a bleak bronze by Sculptor Henry Moore in the stark, cavernous lobby of a building they had erected on the site of the old Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The bronze was Moore's controversial King and Queen (TIME. March i), a cleft-headed, paper-thin pair of half-humans on a bench. After the superintendent reported that 75% of the tenants were saying unkind things about it, the Uris brothers resignedly had the bronze hauled back to the dealer. "I still think...
...French, who have bossed Hanoi and its rich hinterlands for nearly 80 years, it was a melancholy occasion to be faced with at best bleak resignation. By the time the last French soldiers withdrew, nearly every useful piece of military equipment had been dismantled and carried off. The first Viet Minh officials to arrive protested that their hospital billets had been stripped bare; the French sent back a few light bulbs, but that was all. "The French are good at retreating," said a grimly admiring allied officer...
Dangerous Decoy. Near Utah's Bear River Wildlife Refuge, where the bleak shadows of the Wasatch Mountains stretch toward Great Salt Lake, hunters could hardly shoot fast enough. Fat from a summer in the grainfields of western Canada, great flights of geese and fresh-water ducks made tempting targets (see color pages following). Bright, bobbing decoys lured the flyers down toward danger; artificial calls quacked to them as they passed; shotguns (usually 12 gauge) blasted broad patterns of destruction across the shallow reaches of the river. The miracle was that so many birds survived...
...picture is not bleak, however, because Munro has been pleasantly surprised by the enthusiasm and determination of his young team. By didn't of heavy work, in only two weeks of pre-season practice the team has improved its passing and playmaking to a level not reached until midseason last year...
...physical and psychological thorn in Red China's side for five years, Quemoy Island is a bleak, treeless patch of rock and sand, 70 square miles in area, which lies only five miles from the mainland, twelve miles from the Communist port city of Amoy. Off Quemoy last week a furious little skirmish between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists was being fought across a few thousand yards of choppy blue water in Formosa Strait...