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Paintings by modern Americans, increasingly sought and sold by Europe's private galleries and collectors, are beginning to trickle into a few big public European museums. For its first work by an American of any period, the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo last week got a wistful and lyric portrait called Albert's Son, by Andrew Wyeth, perhaps the most commercially successful of serious U.S. artists. At the other end of the artistic spectrum, the Tate Gallery in London announced that as the first work to be hung in its new American Wing it had acquired...
Raymond Wielgus, the son of a Chicago furniture manufacturer, has been fascinated by carving ever since childhood. After he graduated in art from the University of Illinois, he went to work making master models for machine-made furniture. Six years ago, he bought his first piece of primitive art, because he "wanted to own something old.'' The piece was a Mexican urn and cost him $100. It set him to reading about primitive art-and one of his first conclusions was that his urn was a fake...
...Atomic Energy Commission usually hates to tell about accidents to nuclear reactors. Reason: the public gets so jumpy. But about the latest such accident it not only lifted secrecy but has made a color motion picture snowing the tricky and dangerous work of repairing a reactor at Oak Ridge, Tenn. The film shows dozens of scientists and technicians working for nine months to patch two small holes that had been burned in the 5/16-in. zirconium shell of the reactor's fiercely radioactive core...
This was no work for amateurs or bunglers. To gain access to the heavily shielded core vessel, high-density concrete slabs first had to be lifted by remotely controlled cranes, exposing the underground room that houses the reactor and its maze of pipes and pumps. The cell was then flooded with 20 ft. of water to protect the technicians from radiation while they lowered specially designed long-handled tools into a flanged opening, 2⅛ in. in diameter, at the top of the vessel. Then, cutting torches and reamers, operated by delicate levers, rounded out the irregular-shaped holes...
Among the satellites so far shot into orbit, perhaps the most useful to man was Tiros I, the "weather eye," whose pictures of the earth's cloud pattern gave a valuable overall view of global weather. Last week the U.S. launched Tiros II, to improve on the work of its predecessor. The 280-lb., drum-shaped satellite, spangled with 9,260 solar cells, went into a nearly circular orbit about 400 miles above the earth. All except one of its instruments worked fine; only the wide-angle TV camera for photographing large-scale cloud cover was out of kilter...