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Thant, reiterating his fears of a wider war in Asia, invoked Hanoi's wrath by suggesting an eminently fairminded, three-step formula for ending the war: 1) "a general standstill truce," to be followed in a few weeks by 2) "preliminary talks" between Washington and Hanoi, possibly refereed by Moscow and London as co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva conference that partitioned Indo-China, and 3) reconvening of the Geneva Conference...
Last week Gretel was back in the water with her new look-sharper in the bow, smaller in the keel, wider in the beam. All her crew got was the same old look: a view of Dame Panic's transom. Five times the two boats raced, and five times Pattie won-by margins ranging from 2 min. 12 sec. to 5 min. 22 sec. Owner Packer tried switching skippers; that did not seem to help either. Gretel finally did manage to win one race-when Pattie split three jibs at the seams-but experts agreed that her cause...
...cool tones of blue, and the intricate articulation of the detail which characterize the mythological paintings of his early years. The rest of the Rembrandts are mediocre at best. The two portraits of Joannes Elison and Maria Bocknelle are flat and uninteresting. The Portrait of Young Titus has gained wider acclaim from its price than from its quality. This washed-out portrait--which fetched $2.25 million may even be misnamed. It is the only painting which portrays Rembrandt's son with grey-blue eyes, and the facial features of the child in this portrait do not fully correspond with other...
When the first reports and photos came in from Down Under, U.S. naval architects-discounted the idea of anything radical in Dame Pattie-except for a rudder that is wider at the head than at the heel. "Her deck plan is almost an exact reproduction of the Constellation's"-the U.S. boat that won the America's Cup in 1964-said Olin Stephens, who designed Constellation and the newest U.S. twelve-meter, Intrepid. But Stephens had second thoughts. "I wish I could see," he said, "what makes Pattie so fast...
...appointment will make it possible for all of us to give more seminars and courses in a wider range," Kenneth S. Lynn '45, professor of English, said yesterday. "I think the shortage in this area has been acute...