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Minnesota's "big north country," with its gentle hills and thick stands of birch and pine, seems an unlikely spot for the most ambitious urban test yet conceived in the U.S. But last week 50,000 acres of Aitkin County, some 120 miles north of Minneapolis-St. Paul, were officially chosen as the site of the Minnesota Experimental City. If all goes as planned, MXC, as the city is called for the time being, could be completed in 1985 and have a maximum population...
...THIS is not to say that an Ionesco play should be a cozy, gather-round-the-fireside affair. If we should remain close to the action, then we should also be appalled by what we see. In order to help us draw back in horror, the thick and ghastly paste of wrinkled contortion that the players call make-up gives things a masked, tragic look. Ionesco deemed the play a "tragic farce," and the bare, microcosmic setting fortifies the impression of Greek drama: it caters to the essential formality built into the play...
...window. There he was to spend the first 36 days in solitary confinement. He was immediately issued personal supplies-a cup, toothpaste, tooth brush, shirts, trousers, blankets, a teapot. The food was opulent enough by P.O.W. standards-sweet milk and half a loaf of bread in the morning, thick potato or cabbage soup for lunch, along with soybean cakes, or fish cakes, and sometimes a ration of pork. Later in the day a third meal was served...
...stay in shape for such arduous assignments, Sullivan carves time out of his schedule to swim and ice-skate near his home in Bethesda, Md. A trim 5 ft. 11 in., he watches his weight (Metrecal at his desk for lunch) and his appearance. Even in the thick of a crisis, his gray suits hold their shape and his loafers keep their high buff. Complains one subordinate with a tinge of envy, "This guy never even looks creased...
...stands a little over five feet and usually comes wrapped in a clerical black suit and vest that sets off an honorary Phi Beta Kappa key. The head, or node receptor, as Fuller might call it, carries a hearing aid and glasses so thick they magnify his eyes. This figure has been around so long and has impinged on public awareness so many times, it sometimes seems that Fuller is constantly being discovered and forgotten...