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...face of Soviet and Cuban denials, that the rebels who invaded Zaïre's mineral-rich Shaba province last month had been trained by Cuban troops and equipped by Moscow. Insisted a White House aide: "We've got the goods on them. We've got a file three inches thick." The Administration was exploiting the issue of Soviet and Cuban involvement in the Zaïrian crisis in order to make Carter look firm in dealing with the Soviet strategic threat (see WORLD...
...first years at Radcliffe, Bolster could not live in a dorm because of overcrowding; by her senior year, however, when she had the opportunity to live on campus, she turned it down--largely because of the restrictions which, she felt, outweighed the advantages of being in the thick of things. Having already participated in college activities (even though her own social life revolved more around MIT than Harvard), what she most regrets having missed at Radcliffe is not the coziness of milk-and-cookies, but all that she could have done academically...
...excitement than there was a few years ago." And every bit as much schoolwork. The days when more than half of Andover's senior class sailed into Yale or Harvard are long gone. Andover still gets 40% of its seniors into Ivy League schools, but the competition for "thick letters" on "Black Monday"-the day in mid-April when Ivy acceptances arrive-is still fierce...
What appears to be the most promising solution may also be the simplest: a cable of thick nylon strands would be strung across a 3.1-mile-wide passage near the glacier to block outbound icebergs. Similar barriers already help keep Greenland harbors free of drifting bergs. A feasibility study directed by Kollmeyer concluded that 20 men could put the cable in place within 40 days after the glacier's retreat is confirmed. Estimated cost: $31.1 million. Declares Don Ryan, a marine safety specialist for the Coast Guard: "So far, no one has suggested that our study is wrong...
...black silhouettes are almost like calligraphy with brilliant patches of yellow, pink and lime dashing the picture into life. It looks rather like a circus scene and reminds you a bit of the wire Statuette of Alexander Calder. "Le Samourai" again is reminiscent of characters painted with a thick brush. Only it is as if the long black strokes suddenly begin to drip down with the sheer weight of the paint and hence bulge at the ends like some monstrous pseudopodia of amoebae. This biomorphis is a common feature of the works--the fusion of natural and artificial objects...