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Contents: The View from the Castle: Secretary Ripley’s comments, Phenomena, comment and notes by James K. Page Jr., Picture credits, Letters to the Editor, Around the Mall and beyond by Edwards Park, Fishing industry and scientists are hard put to find ways in which the antic, lovable and intelligent porpoise can be freed, uninjured, from tuna seiners’ netrs., Sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon labored long and hard to give the nation its favorite statue, Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Memorial., Aurora borealis, the greatest light show on Earth, may help explain climatic changes, the ozone shield., The risible, visible sculptures of les Lalanne amuse us with heads which are houses, hippo bathtubs, donkey-backed desks, ostrich bars and landscaped women., How Justices run “nine little law firms” at the Supreme Court, disagree without being disagreeable., The prodigious Nikolaus Pevsner, having completed his 46-volume The Buildings of England, wants to prod someone into doing the same for American architecture., Climbing Chilkott Pass to the Klondike was a fearful ordeal for the 30,000 gold rushers who survived it in 1897-98, as it was for four modern adventurers., Lawrence Angel, “Bone Man” of the Smithsonian, enjoys digging up preclassical Greece, identifying a murder victim, or probing ancient and modern demography., Reclusive, aristocratic Walter Inglis Anderson spent years illustrating Pope’s translation of Homer., Symbiosis runs wild in a Lilliputian “forest” growing on the backs of high-living weevils in New Guinea.
Issue: February 1977
Condition: Very Good