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True to his combative nature, Amalric insisted on his right to examine the credentials of each of the KGB officers. He also studied the arrest warrant, and when he detected an incorrect date for his birthday, he said jokingly: "You see, you have the wrong man." Amalric learned that half of the agents were from the Siberian border city of Sverdlovsk, where a copy of his book, which was circulating in typed form via the Samizdat underground press, had been confiscated by the authorities...
Bang-Zone. Like Proxmire, ecologists are concerned about the potential threat of the SST to the environment. Many of their misgivings are documented in the S/S/T and Sonic Boom Handbook, a hot-selling (150,000 copies to date) paperback edited by William Shurcliff, director of a pressure group called the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. The Handbook contends that a single SST, flying from New York to California, would leave a "bang-zone" 50 miles wide by 2,000 miles long. But some tests indicate that this bang at SST's operational height of 60,000 ft. will...
Tapestries: the very word conjures up the past−grand, remote, rather faded. Although the art of tapestry weaving is ancient, a number of present-day practitioners are proving that the results can still be new and fresh. France's famous tapestry factories, which date back to the 17th century, today keep a corps of weavers busy turning out bold, flat, colorfully stylized designs by Matisse, Vasarely and Jean...
...young. A few weeks ago a white-bearded professor from France's tradition-bound Academic des Beaux-Arts asked Sheila Hicks to give a course in tapestries, "but not the factory kind." To his young students, even the highly abstract "woven paintings" of Mategot are out of date...
...Yovicsin said that he had medical clearance to complete one more season. He explained the apparent contradiction by saying that previous medical advice to discontinue had not specified a date Yovicsin also said that if he were to quit immediately. Harvard would not have enough time to find a suitable replacement...