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Contents: The View From The Castle; Letters To The Editor; Phenomena, Comments And Notes; Around The Mall And Beyond; Picture Credits; The Coast Guard: Poor, But Proud And Ready (“Multimission” is the service’s byword, but it may have to shift some of its functions elsewhere); The Most Spanish Of Spanish Artists Was “The Greek” (A great exhibition of El Greco’s work, now touring this country, affords a fresh view of his genius); Secrets Of A Freshwater Pond (Beneath a placid surface, the water seethes with tiny creatures that compete fiercely for survival); New Light On The City Of David (Under the spades of enthusiastic diggers, many of them volunteers, ancient Jerusalem is emerging); After Star Wars, After Pac-Man, Comes TRON (Disney Studios uses the electronic graphics of video games to animate a dazzling new film); Golden Gate Bridge – ‘Impossible,’ But There (It took 68 years of argument, four years of work and $27 million to achieve its soaring reality); A Highland Fling In North Carolina (Every July, Scots and pseudo-Scots gather by the thousands to reenact old Caledonian rituals); Birds’ Songs Are More Than Music (Research is under way on why birds sing, how they learn to, and why the melodies are so elaborate); Book Review; Additional Reading; July Events At The Smithsonian; Smithsonian Tours; Poor Weinberger – His Name’s Too Long
Issue: July 1982
Condition: Very Good