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Steppingstone Towers. The Sumerians introduced writing, and under their rule the arts flourished. Their temples-dedicated to such gods as to Innin, the goddess of fertility, or to Dumuzi, a kind of Sumerian Adonis-were huge edifices of mud brick made splendid by intricate mosaics of colored earth. The temples rose in staged towers much as did the Tower of Babel, and each formed a kind of artificial mountain-a steppingstone by which the gods could commute to earth. But above all, the Sumerians were a kingdom of sculptors who, in seesawing between realism and abstraction, seem almost modern...
Sway & Shake. Less than four years ago, when it was floated into position on the continental shelf some 80 miles southeast of Manhattan, TT4 was considered an engineering triumph. Its three 310-ft. stiltlike legs had been built and trussed together before being towed to sea. Anchoring them in mud and silt on the ocean floor had been a trying, ticklish business. But by December 1957, TT4 had its legs and its massive triangular platform in place. Powerful radars were installed, and eight officers and 65 enlisted men moved into its cramped quarters. Along with two other towers...
...grey toad, a German tank relentlessly pursues him. Bullets frisk about his heels. He dodges, drops his gun, falls, runs on, gasps, reels with exhaustion. The screen reels, tilts crazily, tilts further . . . Suddenly the image is upside down, the world is upside down. Yet still across a sky of mud the soldier flees, and still the tank pursues...
Halfway around the world, midway between the red mud of Vientiane and the white marble of Washington, in an ugly mustard-colored building squatting above the U.S. Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, the Laotian skirmishes became new red dots on a vast, well-dotted map of the Pacific frontier. In a windowless basement room that once served as a hospital morgue, Admiral Harry Donald Felt, U.S. Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), met with his staff for their briefing. Officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines mulled over the latest intelligence reports. Then the little man with the four...
...school's first students have been startled at the rolled-up-sleeves attitude of their seven top U.S. faculty members. They expected donnish tea and talk from Dean Alvin D. Loving, a U.S. Negro, instead found him wading in the mud, bossing construction workers. Even old Oxonians now gruffly praise the notion that education can honor "the dignity of labor," and that professors should research sociological and economic problems. Half the country's university students are now studying not Blackstone, Cicero or Tennyson but science and medicine...