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NORRIS EMBRY-Elkon, 1063 Madison Ave. at 80th. Embry lifts the curtain on a drama in which shadows and echoes are the actors, and reality is as fleeting as a specter. With charred cinders for eyes, a face floats freely into space, tilting wanly as it rises, while tiny robed figures wander aimlessly in streams of nervous color. Embry affirms this disressing vision with a bold, negative gesture: he signs his works NO. Thirty small monotypes, mixed media and oils. Through...
...Odds. To make legal aid more accessible, a few bold souls have suggested the establishment of group legal practice, modeled on company medical plans or union health insurance. The organized bar, however, is still hotly opposed. The very idea raises the old specter of "lay intermediaries." Last week the Supreme Court itself raised the specter by upholding, 6 to 2, a legal-aid plan set up years ago by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...
...election. The U.S., the world's largest producer, is also threatened with labor tie-ups as 50 major-industry wage contracts expire beginning June 30. Thus the areas where 50% of the free world's copper is mined face one kind of crisis or another. The specter of shortages of the essential metal has pushed copper dealers' prices up as much as 25% since January and driven many users to hasty stockpiling...
...specter of Yale's IBM wasteland was raised earlier this year by rumors about the Elder Committee's report. After six months of study, the Committee recommended sweeping changes in the method of assigning freshmen to the Houses. Despite the reluctance of Faculty members to discuss the exact proposals, the rumors were, distressingly, not far wrong...
British Author Garnett insists that his novel "was conceived as a frivolous gloss upon the most charming story in the Bible." But he concedes that "a parable kept pushing its way in." The nightmarish horror surrounding the ark, he suggests, conjures up the specter of modern-day thermonuclear destruction. And Noah collaborated with God in the destruction of all other life, leading to the question of how many potential nuclear-age Noahs, who fancy they have a direct line to God, are extant...