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From France to the U.N. Secretariat in Manhattan came a stained-glass memorial on the themes of peace and love: a 12-ft. by 15-ft. panel designed without fee by Painter Marc Chagall, 77, as his remembrance of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. "A poet always uses the same vocabulary," says Chagall, and his translucent sonnet displays his familiar metaphors of thin-lipped cow, floating patriarch and spiritual chicken. In Pocantico Hills, N.Y., the preserve of the Rockefellers, the Union Church received a stained-glass Chagall window depicting the good Samaritan, to be dedicated by the family...
...Anglo-French Concorde so far will cost the two nations 75% more than originally planned. This admission brought gasps from the House of Commons when it was made fortnight ago by Aviation Minister Julian Amery. He admitted that he and French Transport Minister Marc Jaquet had adjusted the cost to $400 million for each country after studying modifications that will be necessary to give the Concorde more passenger space, greater engine power and larger wing area-partly to make it more competitive with the proposed U.S. model...
SUNDAY (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). A special program devoted entirely to the remodeled and about-to-reopen Museum of Modern Art, narrated by Aline Saarinen and featuring films of interviews with Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Joan Miro, Alberto Giacometti and Stuart Davis in their homes or studios...
...Marc A. Slotnick '64, former HCUA member and organiser of the sale, termed the Dean's decision an "unnecessary inconvenience." "I don't agree that a gathering would have caused any harm," he said, "especially in light of the cold, rainy weather and the fact that the sale was set for 6:30 p.m., a time when many students are eating dinner...
While hardly ranking with the parley between Marc Antony, Lepidus and Octavian in a tent near Bologna at which they created the Second Roman Triumvirate, the meeting of the three little men under a tent on Laos' Plain of Jars certainly rivaled it in security precautions.* Amid fluttering truce flags, the only outsiders allowed within 100 meters of the tent were one unarmed bodyguard for each principal, and two servants. Between 100 and 300 meters away were stationed ten unarmed guards for each side, and in an outer circle stood 330 more soldiers...