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Louise Nevelson, the doyenne of American sculpture, is 80 this year. Over the past four decades-she did not have her first exhibition until 1941-the work of this Russian-born artist, an immigrant from Kiev, has become one of the indispensable points of reference in American art as a whole. Her walls of wooden boxes, painted black, white or gold and containing arrays of scraps and found objects, occupy a unique mid-point between the grids of cubism and the dream landscapes of surrealism, displaying a tough analytical sense that is at the same time drenched in fantasy...
...Soviet scientists are reviving a more down-to-earth explanation. After six years of investigation, researchers at the Institute of Geochemistry and Mineral Physics in Kiev have concluded that the blast was caused by something less exotic: a meteorite. Many scientists in the past refused to accept the meteorite theory because there is no trace of any impact crater at the center of the destruction, in the isolated Tunguska area, about 950 km (590 miles) north of Irkutsk...
...State Department withdrew an advance party of seven American consular officials from Kiev and expelled 17 Soviet diplomats from a temporary consulate in New York City...
Dissenters reject all state control, including government-required registration. But one Protestant reports 200 Baptist or Pentecostal congregations have been registered in the U.S.S.R. over the past five years, about half of them Ukrainian. Dukhonchenko reckons there are only about 8,000 reformers left in Kiev, and only 18,000 across the Soviet Union...
Vins' former congregation seems to be flourishing. It has built and registered the biggest Protestant church in Kiev. Sunday attendance runs from 500 to 1,000. The congregation remains in dependent of the still suspect All-Union Council. A handful of parishioners are cleaning the church when our sleek black limousine arrives. It leads them to decide not to say who their leaders are, though they admit that all members who were imprisoned during the Vins days are back. Recalling the times when the congregation had to worship clandestinely in the woods beyond the city, an old woman remarks...