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...Fitz-John, Ambassador from Sierra Leone, a country which receives is independence from the British on April 27 noted that in view of "the embarrassing position of the United States in regard to its NATO friends," the Angola vote in the United Nations "was a very heroic stand." He and many other African representatives said they saw no reason to "doubt the good faith" of the U.S. in the Cuba crisis...
...almost from his childhood in the Gascon town of Montauban. At nine he was already turning out drawings of astonishing maturity, and in 1797, when he was 17, he joined the Paris studio of the great classicist Jacques Louis David. But while David's figures remained solid and heroic, those of Ingres soon became pliant and touched with elegance. David took his inspiration from ancient Rome, and painted frequently from Roman statues. Ingres was struck by the Italian Renaissance primitives, by early Greek and Etruscan art, and above all by Raphael, who so gracefully bridged the worlds...
...Aided by Gary Cooper's relaxed narration of a fine script, the program looked deep into the eyes of settlers, cowboys. Indians, Westerners of all conditions. With sure irony, it demolished the legends perpetuated on endless TV westerns as it showed the fabled desperadoes as greasy punks, the heroic sheriffs as smalltime officeholders, and the beautiful dance-hall girls a lot uglier than sin. It recalled the West's real life as well as its real death; one memorable picture showed a corpse so riddled with bullets that it looked-making the Bat Masterson kind of tough talk...
...short of the Stamford (Conn.) station, whereupon dozens of passengers resolutely got out and began marching in solid phalanx for town. Along the way, they spotted another stalled train starting up. They climbed aboard only to find that the train was not scheduled to stop at Stamford. But one heroic commuter had had enough for one week: he pulled the emergency signal, forced the train to stop, and he and his friends...
...Edward Teller, and solemnly puts forth the preposterous view that Atom Spies "Arthur and Edith Rosenbluth" were martyrs in the cause of freedom of information. But the author's principal concern is examined exhaustively and well: If the eye of science offends, should it be plucked out? The heroic Prince de Bary refuses to build war brains for the OSI, and retires to a life of contemplation. Subtly enough that the truth does not cloy, Schirmbeck answers his own question: Science must continue to see, but it must turn its gaze inward...