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...poet, Yeats was like an element in nature. In old age, he loved to tell the tale of an ancient sage (possibly William Butler Yeats) who was asked, "Who are your Masters?" And he replied, "The wind and the harlot, the virgin and the child, the lion and the eagle...
...Crimson cannot afford a repeat of this winter's weight throw tragedy when the same performers meet again in the hammer throw. Stan Doten and Ted Bailey should be first and second, and Roger Wilson should place. But Jud Sage of Navy looms in the background...
...amusing fashion of a male Nancy Mitford. Among the chief sitters: Catherine the Great, Peter the Great, Frederick the Great, Voltaire, Saint Simon, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, Ben Franklin, Louis XIV, Louis XV, John Wesley and Jean Jacques Rousseau. Intellectual and psychological vignettes illuminate the contradictions of ruler and sage. As a bride of 16, Catherine the Great was ignorant of the facts of life, thought the only difference between men and women was that men, for some odd reason, had to shave. Her Romanov husband was impotent, mad and sadistic, and his favorite pastime was to play with...
...work in developing radar. From M.I.T.'s Instrumentation Lab came advanced gyroscopic bombsights and the inertial guidance systems for the Polaris missile and nuclear submarines. M.I.T.'s Lincoln Lab worked out the U.S.'s DEW line early-warning system against attack by enemy aircraft, the SAGE system to coordinate retaliation, and the BMEWS system for warning against enemy missiles. At M.I.T.'s Millstone Hill field station at Westford, Mass., is the 84-ft. dish antenna that has bounced radar pulses off the planet Venus. In all, M.I.T. operates $50.8 million worth of installations for the Government...
...difficult medium." When Frank Lloyd Wright blew into town on a commission to build a church, Jenkins met him and grandly announced that he was going to be an artist. "He asked me," Jenkins recalls, "if I had ever thought of agriculture." At 17, Jenkins tried to draw some sage advice from Painter Thomas Hart Benton. "Mr. Benton asked me how old I was, and then suggested I come back when...