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Snowed In & Snowed Out. It was not snowing in Viet Nam, so the State Department dispatched a four-wheel-drive Jeep to bring Dean Rusk in from his snowbound home in Maryland for the Sunday conferences that followed the U.S. decision to end the bombing pause. The Pentagon rolled out four-ton trucks for its top officials. One lower-grade officer had to stay on duty in the command center for 42 hours because his relief could not make his way in. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, after flying in from Minneapolis, found the 25-mile highway from outlying Dulles Airport...
Just about everything went wrong. The contact man who was to meet him on a beach 50 miles south of Bombay was not there, and the plane's nose wheel collapsed on landing, bending the propellers in the sand. Undismayed, Walcott coolly ordered the local police to guard the plane while he and the co-pilot caught a bus to Bombay, taking along two suitcases full of watches. In Bombay, Walcott apparently quietly disposed of the watches and picked up the second pilot. Then all three men bluffed their way into the line of debarking passengers at Bombay...
...ever-whirling wheel...
...seems to have blossomed suddenly, the kinetic kraze has been a long time germinating. As early as 1910, the Italian futurists wanted to "renew art by seeking the style of movement" and proclaimed a racing automobile more beautiful than the Winged Victory. Dadaist Marcel Du-champ set a bicycle wheel atop a stool in 1913 and called it Mobile. The Russian constructivists Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner issued a manifesto in 1920 proclaiming their freedom "from the 1,000-year-old error of art, originating in Egypt, that only static rhythms can be its elements. For present-day perception...
...hear the neglected music of P.D.Q. Bach, the least-known offspring of Johann Sebastian. The opening Concerto for Horn and Hardart got off to a lively start when blaaaaaaat! It was Soloist Peter Schickele blowing on a duck caller attached to the "concert grand Hard-art," a four-wheel, coin-operated contraption that looked like a junkyard reject. As the music went sailing off in directions unknown, Schickele merrily blasted away on a kazoo, ocarina, bike horns, buzzers and doorbells. For a finale, he punctured six balloons with an ice pick and a rifle...