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Many white businessmen hope there will not be all that much to pay; they expect the projected lifting of the economic boycott against Rhodesia to help everyone. Indeed, stocks on the Salisbury exchange have begun edging upward. Houses that had been up for sale in affluent white areas are being either withdrawn from the market or marked up in price. One white who now pays only $225 a month for a five-bedroom house in the capital's suburbs of Highlands was startled to be told that his rent will double when his current lease expires...
...most famous anamorphic image in art is the smear of paint that tilts upward, like a dun-colored flying saucer, from the bottom of Hans Holbein's 1533 double portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, The Ambassadors. When squinted at edge-on, from the right-hand side of the frame, the smear turns into a skull. The illusion is startling: the rest of the painting disappears and the death's-head floats eerily in a greenish-brown blur. What Holbein meant by it is still a matter of debate among historians. Is it a comment...
Mansfield, who called last year for a "general deflation" in grades and for a return to the tougher grading standards of the late 1960's, said that he has been "exhorting members of the department who haven't noticed the upward creep in grades to pay attention to what they've been doing...
Conducted with the sponsorship of several Government agencies, the yearlong NRC study agreed that fluorocarbons do, as suspected, percolate upward into the stratosphere, where their chlorine atoms react with and thus destroy ozone molecules. According to the NRC report, if the fluorocarbon release continues at the 1973 rate, it could ultimately deplete the three-mile-thick ozone layer by as much as 7%. Public health authorities predict that the subsequent increase in the amount of ultraviolet light reaching the earth would raise by about 200 the number of Americans afflicted annually by malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer that...
...South. But, in fact, the changes that are transforming the eleven states of the old Confederacy are far more basic and substantial. In what had long been the nation's poorest, most backward-looking region, business booms and economic, social and political opportunities abound. Cities thrust ever outward and upward. Racial integration proceeds with surprising smoothness. And a Georgian wins the Democratic presidential nomination, the Deep South's first major-party candidate for the presidency in 128 years. Small wonder that the rest of the country is looking to the South to see what it has been missing?and what...