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Contents: Smithsonian Horizons, Letters for the Editor, Picture Credits, Around the Mall and Beyond, Book Reviews, Getting a Better Fix on the Galaxies (Their mysteries untold bit by bit as researchers probe the Universe for clues – but they’ve light-years to go.(, Francisco Goya: Spirit of the Enlighten (A major exhibitor reveals the Reason behind his grotesque and nightmare images of 18th-century Spain.), The Frogs Whose ‘perspiration’ can Kill (Their lethal skin secretions, used by hunters for dart poison, may soon have medical applications.), Beatrix Potter’s Artful Escape (She wrote and painted her way out of her own nursery; now Peter Rabbit & Company are in everyone else’s.), ‘Anywhere you’ll ride, I’ll fly…’ (,,,said a gutsy pilot, as he kicked off the white-knuckle art of glacier flying – much to mountaineers; delight.), Where a Man’s Best Friend is his Monkey (On the Malay Peninsula, sure-footed simians help bring in the coconuts for their appreciative masters.), The Islamic Gems of Henri Vever (With the esthetic sense of a jeweler (which he was), he collected the Persian and Indian paintings that are starring in a bright new show at the Sackler Gallery.), ‘I Opened the Window and in-flew-Enza’ (The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-19 felled 22 million people, twice as many as died in all of World War I.)
Issue: January 1989
Condition: Very Good