Word: downes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tubes for Speed. An unassuming man in most other ways, Kricke has pushed to the forefront of modern German sculpture. At 37, he gets up to $25,000 each for his constructions, but still lives the life of a poor art student. Kricke occupies a spectacularly shabby studio in a...
"Very disappointing," said the U.S. State Department. Chief problem is in providing a system sensitive enough to distinguish nuclear shocks from normal small earthquakes, of which thousands occur every year. Under the Russian-approved system, U.S. negotiators pointed out, the Nevada shot-a ig-kiloton explosion-would have been read...
Once when Dr. Lilly was stimulating a dolphin, the electrical apparatus broke down, but a tape recorder kept on running. When he played the tape, he heard his own voice saying, "three hundred twentythree" (the footage on the tape). Then from the dolphin came the same words in a quacking...
"Mayday." Dr. Lilly is now convinced that dolphins have an extremely complicated language. They converse in a great variety of buzzes, whistles, rattles and grunts. Since most of the sounds are at higher frequencies than the human ear can hear clearly, Dr. Lilly plays tapes of dolphin talk at quarter...
As it turned out, the newspapers' concern was unnecessary. The givers, made cautious by the exposures that caught some TV and radio payolateers with their largesse showing, took the initiative. In Los Angeles, a photography firm that last year threw sets of steak knives at its favorite newsmen, this...