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...highlights of any year is the Carnegie Institution's annual report on the projects it has underwritten in fields ranging from physics to plant biology. Most eye-popping items in the 1960 report, which was released last week, were the major astronomical findings made by the institution at Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories in California. Among the notable discoveries and newfound mysteries...
...aged eyes of a Jordaens shepherd, Massys' open-mouthed Magi. Skillfully but not trickily panning across the pictures from face to face, scene to scene, Producer-Director Donald Hyatt achieves a unique sense of motion and drama. Gradually, the life of Christ (to the Sermon on the Mount) is told more effectively than it ever could be from a pulpit...
ANGERED by Prometheus' theft of - fire from Mount Olympus. Jupiter sent the first woman. Pandora, to earth. Then he sent Pandora a mysterious box, calculating (rightly) that Pandora's feminine curiosity would force her to peep inside. She did. and released all the sorrows that afflict humanity. See HEMISPHERE, Legacy of Woes...
...Baltic. Strauss has held off building the destroyers that were supposed to lead his navy, and now has talked the German government into demanding that the 3,000-ton ceiling on the size of German destroyers be raised to 5.000 tons. He wants warships big enough to mount the latest A. A. rockets - and the 1,500-mile Polaris. His projected submarine force: 24 to 36 small coastal subs, designed to help block the Baltic at the Skagerrak Straits in case...
Legson Kayira is a Tumbuka tribesman from Nyasaland who is in love-with Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, Wash. The junior college, which has 650 students, mainly local, first learned of Kayira's devotion last February when he sent a scholarship application from Kampala, Uganda. The school heard from him again this fall, when he sent a letter that began: "In October of the year of our Lord 1958, I began a journey-a long and difficult journey-a journey to glory or death." The letter went on to paint a picture of a youngster so hungry...