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Central Park may receive Give an ostrich for Christmas
27 miles of apricot nylon art
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; ti’sincJpEW YORK — The artist who built a cloth fence
across California and “wrapped” a million square feet of
the Australian coast now wants to transform Central
1, 011 Park into a $4 million piece of art, using 27 miles of
VtMARui saffron and apricot-colored nylon,
in blmvmg structure that the artist named Christo
proposes to build with 11,000 steel gates and miles of
! nylon, would wind through the park like a stream.
&y s to. .«But first, he must get approval from the parks corn-
ning con; missioner, who has “a lot of anxiety ” about the scheme.
inanCluli IfChristo already has built a running wall of cloth over
at St. \l: 24 miles of California countryside and “wrapped” a mil
lion square feet of sea off the coast of Sydney, Australia,
o Toanl«^ evera ^ 1110,1 tbs ago, he proposed his latest project to
II [ )(> Gordon Davis, New York City’s parks commissioner.
jPavis’ understandable reaction: “You’ve got to be kid-
. .ping-”
lt TflWhen Christo insisted he was serious, Davis told
cutting: hjm, “You’ll have to do a lot of proving to me to convince
202 Fra me you’re not kidding.”
ffum jufflChristo, a Bulgarian-born artist, has since been pro
ving his intentions to Davis and a lot of other skeptics.
He has been meeting with local community boards and
at ^ PM bind marks commission members. Slowly, the decision
is coming back to Davis, who expects to have a final
answer within the next two months.
“I feel just like before my first date in high school,”
Davis said Monday.
“I’ve got sweaty palms, a lot of anxiety, and a lot of
ambivalence. ”
What has Davis worried is not only the size of the
project but its implications. “I accept it as a work of art of
considerable significance,” he said. “But my considera
tion is whether it’s good for the park. It won’t only be in
the park ... it will be all over the park.
“The park itself is a work of art, and he wants to put a
work of art on it.”
The size and complications of the project don’t seem
to faze the one-name artist. His running fence in Califor
nia involved 110,000 pounds of steel cables, 800 tons of
concrete and 2 million square feet of nylon fabric.
Christo also insisted it will not cost the city a penny.
He plans to finance the $4 million in raw materials by
selling sketches of his preliminary drawings of the pro
ject and will erect it with the help of 1,200 unemployed
youths who will be paid by Christo.
The park will be transformed, if Christo gets his
approval, for two weeks in October, 1983.
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Radiation floods kill cancer
United Press International
BALTIMORE — A unique way of
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JBivering high doses of radiation to
t at 7 pc inoperable liver cancer is adding
inonths to patients' lives by shrink-
m. inRu: ing tumors, and doctors say the tech-
Bbue may work against other can
cers too.
|: The treatment, developed by Dr.
Stanley E. Order of the Johns Hop
kins Cancer Center, floods cancer
cells with continuous lethal radia
tion for days or even weeks while
°il'e^ “^paring normal tissue.
-ainingCii The process capitalizes on increas
ing knowledge about the body’s im-
p m a t mune system disease defenses. Sci
entists hitch radioactive iodine to an
antibody that, when injected into the
ii: blood stream, seeks out specific can-
fcer cells but largely ignores the rest
to eleett of the body.
r Most of the initial experiments
rank VV ^ ave been devoted to liver cancers
World i^bat have progressed beyond the
||)ge they can be treated by surgery
. , and for which anti-cancer chemicals
will h ^ no t particularly effective,
ayer sera Order reported on the develop
ment at a news conference Monday
ble, wroand said 11 patients have been tre-
ld. Increatedso far. Eight received some be-
turc willnefit, and dramatic decreases in
pmor size have been reported in
seven of the patients. Five patients
are still living, one 15 months follow-
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People with advanced liver cancer
normally live three to seven months
after initial treatment. Order said
the average length of survival follow
ing the new treatment has been 11
months.
In one woman, 38, a tumor that
occupied 69 percent of the liver
shrank following treatment so it took
up only 18 percent of the liver. She
lived 27 months following treatment
before dying of cancer that had
spread elsewhere.
Order, whose initial work has
been published in medical journals,
said his medical team is now working
on purifying the antibodies so they
will zero in even more intensely on
the cancer cells. This, he said,
should give the tumor even larger
radiation doses while diminishing
radiation to surrounding tissue.
Experiments also are beginning
on inoperable lung cancer, a child
hood nervous system cancer called
neuroblastoma and multiple
myleoma, a cancer of blood-forming
elements.
Order said that in theory, all
forms of human cancer should be
susceptible to this new form of
therapy.
But Dr. Albert H. Owens, direc
tor of the Johns Hopkins Cancer
Center, emphasized the new techni
que is not a cure-all or “magic bullet”
for cancer, but he said, “We are very
excited about our initial observa
tions.”
"This is a brand new modality,”
Order said. “It will take us a number
of years to see how far we can go with
this. ”
United Press International
DALLAS — At one end on the
fiscal scale, men’s crew socks retail at
$6.50 ($7.50 for women). At the
other end, there is a ring — a very
nice ring — for $295,000.
Between those two extremes,
there is all manner of rich and exclu
sive items in the annual “Neiman-
Marcus Christmas Book.”
The “his and hers” gifts is where
everyone turns first, and it’s a bit of a
stunner this year: baby ostriches.
“With ostriches in residence you
could: have one-egg omelet parties,
gather the shed plumes for decora
tion, stage ostrich races, learn the
original Watusi dance (derived from
their flamboyant courting ritual), re
vive quill pens for writing, turn them
loose on the grasshoppers in the corn
field, convert the eggs into decora
tive items,” Neiman’s says.
“Of course, if you’re a condomi
nium dweller, you can add them to
the collections of your favorite zoo or
wildlife park.”
The offered ostriches are a joint
project of the Oklahoma City Zoo
and the Monastery of the Holy Pro
tection of the Blessed Virgin Mar
Neiman’s says — despite the
appearance of strength and har
diness — they are disappearing
from their last natural habitats in
Africa.
The price for a pair: $1,500. The
price for a hollowed-out ostrich egg:
$35.
The catalogue has a few one-of-a-
kind items.
Mary.
birds’
There’s a Martin guitar made from
Brazilian rosewood, spruce, Abalone
Nacre and gold that Neiman’s says
has the sound quality of a seasoned
instrument.
“For those who know C.F. Mar
tin’s craftmanship, this is a trophy at
$9,500,” Neiman’s says.
Across the page from the guitar,
there is a limited edition of the book,
“Coronado’s Children,” by legen
dary Texas writer and historian, J.
Frank Dobie. The book, filled with
tales of lost mines and buried trea
sure, is printed on handmade paper
from Italy with 22 Karat gold illumin
ated capitals, handmade Mexican
bark paper covers and a leather
spine.
“Only 300 available,
each,” Neiman says.
The Bob Hope record collection
combines three records and a photo-
Espresso
Coffee
and
Equipment.
3609 Place
846-4360
biography in a teak-framed cover box
for $40.
“This remarkable set, selected
from the private collections of Mr.
Hope, is a history of comedy in your
hands,” Neiman’s says. “Forty-six
famous people from past and pre
sent join Bob in excerpts from radio,
records, TV, film and live appear
ances.”
Bernard Kliban — the B. Kliban
who draws the cat cartoons — drew
the cover for the Christmas Book. It
shows a caravan of camels, carrying
rainbows tied to their backs, led by
Santa Claus, under a night sky filled
with gaily colored stars and meteors.
The catalogue offers 300 signed
and numbered prints of the cover for
$250 each.
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