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...designers-Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann and Antonio Stinco-have simplified their furniture to the point where two basic units is all it takes to make a roomful of see-through inflatables. One unit is a vinyl "log" nearly 6 ft. long, the other a square pillow 3 in. thick. Hung vertically, six or eight logs form a room divider. Piled up, three or four pillows make a backless seat. Snapped together with built-in tabs, logs and pillows can be combined to form a wide variety of armchairs and sofas...
...night fell Saturday, the Pentagon looked like a citadel under siege. A yellow fog of smoke and tear gas hung stagnant over the grounds. Soldiers marching in front of the main entrance threw huge, ugly shadows on the thick concrete walls. Across the parking lot reserved for top military brass, down the steps, and sloping out over the rolling wall, demonstrators spilled. Some of them were warming themselves in front of bonfires made with ripped-up placards and sticks. A long line of buses with their headlamps glowing strung-out along the access roads. The air was chilly but still...
...airpower attempted to choke off the flow of Soviet and Chinese weaponry into Viet Nam, U.S. troops of the 9th Infantry Division turned up dramatic evidence that war materiel is still finding its way South. Tracking suspicious footprints in the thick jungle of Phouc Tuy province, some 30 miles east of Saigon, a 20-man patrol discovered a tunnel so recently deserted that a candle was still flickering inside. From a maze of interlocking tunnels and chambers, the troops toted out a huge cache of ammunition and at least 675 weapons, including Chinese-made recoilless rifles and brand-new Soviet...
...critics who point out that it would be difficult for life to arise spontaneously in the atmosphere, Morowitz and Sagan have a ready answer: it did not. Instead, they postulate, ancient Venus had a much thinner atmosphere; its surface, now superheated by the greenhouse effect of a thick carbon-dioxide-filled atmosphere, was once cool enough to spawn life. As more gas was spewed into the atmosphere by volcanic action, however, the surface temperatures gradually became unbearable and could have driven the more buoyant organisms into the clouds, where they evolved and may well exist today...
Died. Ludwig Donath, 67, Viennese-born character actor; of leukemia; in Manhattan. A well-known supporting actor in Austria and Germany in the 1930s, Donath was active in the anti-Nazi underground before fleeing to Hollywood in 1940. His thick accent made him a natural cinema Nazi, including der Führer himself in 1943's The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler, but his talent soon found other roles-most notably Al Jolson's cantor-father...