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Contents: The view from the Castle: Secretary Ripley’s comments, Letters to the Editor, Phenomena, comments and notes by James K. Page Jr., Around the Mall and beyond by Edwards Park, Solar vells, those silicon wafers that generate electricity almost by magic, find down-to-earth use., Celebrating the Rubens Year, 400th Anniversary of the birth of a master of baroque painting., The dreaded fever tick crashes a helicopter roundup of cattle in the Texas border country., The glorious Book of Kells comes from Dublin to be seen in U.S. cities for the first time., Seven teen-age math prodigies take off from Johns Hopkins on the way to advanced degrees., Elihu Yale was a rascal, but his tasteful treasures saved a struggling American college., The ancient Amazon river basin, vital to the biosphere, faces threat of ruin at the ingenious, exploitive hand of Man (second of two parts)., “Splendors of Nature”, an exhibition devoted to sheer beauty, opens at the Smithsonian., John Bartram, self-taught Colonial botanist, filled European gardens with his American finds., Radical feminist Victoria Woodhull, comely free-love advocate, was a Presidential candidate in 1872., Preview of the tenth Folklife Festival.
Issue: October 1977
Condition: Very Good