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...turned left and walked quickly through the crowds who were shopping for clothes among the row of stalls draped with cheap blouses, chino pants, and button-down sweaters. I looked behind me apprehensively, but in a mob such as this, I reasoned, there was no way they could have followed me. Still I was taking no chances, and I weaved in and out among the sack-carrying men, chicken-dragging women, and soccer-playing children, taking care at the same time not to step into the garbage that had collected in the middle of the street. A small alley that...
There is furious movement, to be sure - but it is caused by the selfish race to win special bilateral deals with the Middle East oil producers. Last week French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert toured the Middle East attempting to button down contracts that would ensure France oil for the next decade and beyond. He was followed closely by Italian Foreign Minister Aldo Moro, who jetted to Egypt, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi to guarantee supplies for Italy. In St. Moritz, the Shah of Iran took time between ski runs to listen to oil requests from German Economics Minister...
...painted wood delicately mimicking the ripple of fabric stripes in a breeze, inevitably suggests Jasper Johns' flag paintings, but that is only an accident. Likewise, a deliciously anthropomorphic wool winder (see cut), with a human head and the hub of a decorated worm gear for its belly button, predicts the surreal wooden constructions of H.C. Westermann. And then there are the quilts. The best products of America's 19th century women quilt makers anticipate many of the formal devices and color systems of Op art and color-field painting. Seen with an unprejudiced eye, the snap and sparkle...
Another of the experts, Thomas G. Stockham Jr., a computer-science professor at the University of Utah, then cheerily demonstrated that once the record button is depressed, it "locks itself down." It can be released only by pushing any of four other buttons: "start," "fast forward," "rewind" or "stop." If a foot pedal is used to control the recorder, the lifting of a foot will cause the tape to stop moving, but will not result in the erase head's leaving the telltale four-line "off' signature...
When they developed the 18-minute segment of tape, the experts found five of the "off' signatures, indicating that while the record button was down, it had been manually released at least five times by pushing other buttons. Each of these "off' signatures was preceded on the tape, logically enough, by an "on" mark. That meant that someone had pushed three buttons (two to start, one to stop the erase-record process) at least five times (see chart...