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John Hult, a former Rand Corp. scientist who heads his own firm, has a similar idea. He would like to wrap an Antarctic berg, mummy-fashion, in thick plastic and haul it to Southern California. Hult, who says he could do the job for a mere $30 million, calculates that he would lose only 5% of the berg's mass during the year-long trip. He would make up some of his immense costs by bottling a portion of the iceberg water in small flasks and then selling them as souvenirs for tourists. Says he: "The American public would...
Charles de Gaulle wore them. So did Impressionist Claude Monet and myriad others. Their glasses, as thick as Coke-bottle bottoms, were and still generally are the unmistakable emblem of millions of people who have undergone surgery for removal of cataracts-clouded lenses of the eyes. Of the 400,000 patients who had such operations last year, the majority were 65 or older. Most now wear the distinctive-and somewhat unflattering-spectacles. But more than 50,000 of them have no need for special glasses; they have undergone a controversial new procedure-the implanting in the eye of a tiny...
...forced to look through stone." Removing these shadowed lenses allows light to enter the eye but creates another problem. The lens of the normal eye focuses the light rays; without it, vision becomes hopelessly blurred. Under such circumstances, the patient has only a few options: thick glasses, contact lenses or the artificial lens implant. The special spectacles restore vision to normal levels but, in the process, magnify images by 30% and leave the patient with limited peripheral vision. Contact lenses produce less distortion and permit peripheral vision but can be irritating to the eyes, difficult to insert and easy...
...Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming. This film will no longer seem as cathartically satirical as it did when first released in the mid-sixties, when an atmosphere of Cold-War hysteria still hung low, if somewhat less thick than in the 50's, over most of middle-America. But Alan Arkin's comic franticness in this tale about a small New England coastal village thrown into a frenzy when a Russian ship docks in its harbor and the Reds start mixing with the town-folk should still be good for some belly-laughs...
...Twenties," set up by the Council of Europe, contains four exhibitions: some 3,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos, models' posters, documents and every imaginable sort of artifact, from a suprematist teacup by the pioneer Russian abstractionist Kasimir Malevich to a Bauhaus gramophone. The exhibition catalogue is as thick as a brick; one needs persistence, but is richly rewarded. For "Trends of the Twenties" offers a vast and unique panorama of the European avant-garde in its most exacerbated sense of crisis, despair and hope-the years between Sarajevo and the Wall Street crash, the time of the Great...