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...praised rust, rot and decay as mankind's truest friends. Now living in Venice, he sometimes dresses like an unholy relic in caftan, brocaded jacket and boots, sometimes in a kimono to match his Japanese wife. He painted his Citroën sedan in varying hues of metallic violet and noted it in his life catalogue as his 445th work of art. The rest of his 611 recorded works are the product of a wise primitive in a modern age; they tend to be corrosively colored, rank as a humus heap, and scornful of straight lines (see opposite page...
...airbase 375 miles north of Saigon plastered a major guerrilla staging and communications center at Vinhlinh, five miles north of the 17th parallel. Leading the Vietnamese wave was South Viet Nam's Vice Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in a white crash helmet streaked with orange, a violet scarf and a black flying suit. Ky's plane took four hits, and he himself was grazed by shrapnel. Despite heavy ground fire, only one plane was lost; the pilot was rescued...
Died. Lady Violet Astor of Hever, 75, wife of Lord Astor, owner of the Times of London, who spent her life as one of Britain's most energetic social-work volunteers until two years ago, when she and her husband left England for good to escape Britain's heavy death duties; after a long illness; at their Côte d'Azur villa in Pégomas, France...
...hardest blow to believe came in Tom Musliner's first match, when the Crimson swordsman's foil broke against the second-ranked Violet fencer. Given an unfamiliar sword to continue with, Musliner went on to lose the match, but came back later to beat the first and third-ranked New Yorkers...
Crimson sabre fencer Dave Redman all but wrapped it up for Harvard when he substituted in the final foil match and beat the top-ranking Violet fencer to give Harvard a 13-11 lead...