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...Tobey is the top sculptor, Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti of Paris. Giacometti once declared that he wanted his figures to be "immense." But in working on them, he is almost always driven to whittling them down to emaciation, as if he were looking for some elusive essence inside one layer of flesh after another. His figures seem still to be searching for that essence long after they leave his studio, eternal and lonely question marks...
...sound. Last week an exhibition opened in Munich of 400 works by Toulouse-Lautrec. If a thief so much as touches one. an alarm will go off. London's National Gallery and Tate Gallery are considering placing their pictures in a new kind of mat-a thin layer of foam rubber sandwiched between two foil sheets that are wired to the wall. It will do a thief no good to cut the wires, for the alarm will go off anyway. Price...
...Another Layer. The Kennedy Administration's defense policies plainly put a life-or-death premium on Army abilities. Just how good is that Army? How ready is it to meet the critical responsibilities assigned...
Judged on the Washington level, there seem to be several flaws. "Attacking the Army's problems is like uncovering Troy," says one Army officer. "You always find another layer." Says a top Defense Department official: "I look at the whole mess more in sorrow than in anger." In part, the Army's troubles stem from the Eisenhower Administration's "new look" decision to get a bigger bang for a buck by curtailing the weapons of conventional war and concentrating on the massive nuclear deterrent. From a peak strength of 1,668,579 men and a budget...
Modern information, said Sagan, indicates that the surface is not covered with water and that the cloud layer which obscures the surface is most likely frozen water vapor at a height of about 22 miles above the surface. The surface temperature seems to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 622 degrees Fahrenheit...