Smithsonian articles from February 1986

Smithsonian archives from February 1986

Phenomena, comment and notes. (reflections on life in outer space) (column)
February 1, 1986... Phenomena, comment and notes The camp appeared deserted. Tents were scattered about a clearing, and hammocks bridged the few trees that stood separate from the dense jungle beyond. Someone had constructed a crude shelter by draping clear...

Smithsonian horizons. (formal agreements with the Soviet Union regarding scholarly access) (column)
February 1, 1986... Smithsonian horizons Formal international agreements to promote and assure the work of scholars and scientists are indispensable but sometimes deeply troubling. The International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) is one of the private...

Around the mall and beyond. (National Museum of American History exhibition) (column)
February 1, 1986... Around the Mall and beyond Fans of the National Museum of American History have been aware that something big and mysterious was taking place on the second floor. Entering the museum from the Mall, then turning right at the Foucault...

The tumultuous life and times of the painter Diego Rivera.
February 1, 1986... The tumultuous life and times of the painter Diego Rivera Almost 40 years ago I attended a birthday party for one of Mexico's "big three' mural painters, David Alfaro Siqueiros. His wife, Angelica, prepared a sumptuous paella and served it...

Sybaritic to some, sinful to others, but how sweet it is! (chocolate)
February 1, 1986... Sybaritic to some, sinful to others, but how sweet it is! She was magnificent: ten feet tall, 2,200 pounds and all chocolate. Germania, proud symbol of the Stollwerck company, ensconced in a 38-foot Renaissance temple (chocolate, of...

A brave return from the brink for an Ice Age relic. (muskoxen)
February 1, 1986... A brave return from the brink for an Ice Age relic The yearling cut from the herd and scampered across the pack ice over the Bering Sea. Leaving it behind, the 30 other muskoxen kept up their steady shuffle across the dunes, the wind blowing...

After a turbulent youth, the Peace Corps comes of age.
February 1, 1986... After a turbulent youth, the Peace Corps comes of age John F. Kennedy had a dream. Twenty-five years later, in the village of Cumbijin high in the Ecuadorian Andes, that dream makes house calls. Paula Enyeart, a 26-year-old registered...

Whistlers blow new life into a forgotten art. (whistling competitions)
February 1, 1986... Whistlers blow new life into a forgotten art At a memorable point in the 1944 movie To Have and Have Not, Lauren Bacall pauses at the door of Humphrey Bogart's room, gives him a smoky, long-lashed look and purrs: "You know you don't have to...

Cabooses may be rolling toward the end of the line.
February 1, 1986... Cabooses may be rolling toward the end of the line Tom Cooke was a 21-year-old flagman for the Pennsylvania Railroad when he presented himself for duty one day in 1941 to a crusty old freight conductor at his caboose in the South Philadelphia...

Riches and relics of Ottoman sultans dazzle at Topkapi.
February 1, 1986... Riches and relics of Ottoman sultans dazzle at Topkapi Quite a lot of people had never heard of the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul until a 1964 movie about the theft from its premises of an emerald-encrusted dagger. It was a pretty...

How the war in France changed football forever.
February 1, 1986... How the war in France changed football forever On a sweltering summer day early in the 1960s, a white-shocked old tactician named Clark D. Shaughnessy uttered three words that explained one of the great turning points of the country's most...

The art of Captain Cook's voyages.
February 1, 1986... The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages: The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages: Vol. 1, The Voyage of the Endeavour, Vol. 2, The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure Rudiger Joppien and Bernard Smith Yale University Press, $50 each In three...

The kingdom of coal: work, enterprise, and ethnic communities in the mine fields.
February 1, 1986... The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise, and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise, and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields Donald L. Miller & Richard E. Sharpless University of Pennsylvania Press...

An Egyptian journal.
February 1, 1986... An Egyptian Journal An Egyptian Journal William Golding Faber and Faber, $19.95. In 1873, the English adventurer and writer Amelia B. Edwards set out from Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo and sailed up the Nile in a dehabeeyah fitted out with...

Hang on, microworriers - here comes 'angstology.' (column)
February 1, 1986... Hang on, microworriers-- here comes "angstology' A recent newspaper photograph straight from The Twilight Zone showed two Las Vegas matrons in designer jeans running in terror down a residential street, chased by a six-foot, 200-pound...