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...master has pupils that he has never even met. One is U.S. Painter Richard Anuszkiewicz (TIME, July 19). Another is Bridget Riley, 32, whose visual torments are on view in London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. Precise black and white herringbone lines constantly wriggle, peak and valley, in an embodiment of vertigo. Visitors have become nauseated and dizzied by Riley's intense, chattering images that force their eyes to jerk to and fro. Not simply geometric tricks, they are larger than sheer optical delusions: orderliness clashes with chaos in the precarious proximity of black and white bands. They also...
Sophomore ace Chris Pardee won his ballyhooed high jump clash with John Hartnett, beating the Tiger captain at 6 ft., 6 1/4 in. on fewer misses. Cold weather held both jumpers well below their peak height of 6 ft., 9 in., although Pardee went over the bar twice at 6 ft., 8 in., only to knock it off with his trailing...
...Olympic medals are a true test of a skier's ability, Werner was a failure, because he never won any. He broke a leg training for the 1960 Winter Olympics, and by the time this year's Games rolled around, he was 28 and past his peak. But over the years, he won the big races at Chamonix and Wengen and Courchevel, and when he did not win, Bud mostly crashed-because he was a one-man U.S. team trying to defeat the Austrians, French, Germans, Swiss and Italians, who always dominated the sport. Nobody ever skied faster...
...went on to success and riches in show business. But he still feels mild pangs of guilt about his casual academic career, and the song is supposed to make dropouts squirm. It does. Several West Coast disk jockeys told Sherman that they won't play the song during peak audience hours, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. That's when the dropouts are still moping around the house wondering what trouble to get into. Mustn't offend them...
More than neighborliness was behind the government's withdrawal. Foreign investment in Canadian firms declined from a $600 million peak in 1960 to $130 million last year. Canada's economy has been surging, with the result that Canadians themselves have the wherewithal to buy a larger stake in their own industry. In addition, Gordon's plan to give tax reductions to foreign-owned companies that sell at least 25% of their stock to Canadians has met surprising success. Spurred by this incentive, subsidiaries as diverse as those of Du Pont and Reader's Digest have...