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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICAN PROFILE: THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Robert Gulp narrates a visit to the National Gallery, featuring an account of Resident Restorer Francis Sullivan's use of X rays to uncover hidden secrets in several masterpieces. One example: The Lady in Domino by Tiepolo. She holds a closed fan, but X rays show that the artist first painted the fan open and later closed...
...MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. In this tragicomic account of the changes that rack a Victorian Polish-Jewish family, a popular Yiddish storyteller demonstrates that he has the credentials of a major novelist...
...World-oriented ethnic communities-63 of them in all. Yet it remains a frustrated and fragmented society. Negroes, who were still being recruited from the South by the city's industry as recently as 1958, form the most recent wave of immigration. Three hundred thousand strong, they account for 38% of the population of some 800,000, which makes them the largest single distinguishable group of Clevelanders...
...economic. But since its 1964 slump, the economy has been picking up speed, and now Fiat is too. Its cars are getting bigger and faster. Tiny, 500 cc. to 600 cc. "Mickey Mouse" models are giving way to huskier, 1,000 cc. to 1,500 cc. sedans that now account for 34% of production. And demand for the bigger, more powerful cars is increasing steadily. With fatter paychecks in their pockets, 4,000,000 Italians now take to the new, no-speed-limit autostradas for "il weekend." They want something a little bigger than "Mickey Mouse" to carry luggage, baby...
...have been hasty in our original assessment," one supporter said. "He's touching all the bases now, seeing how his candidacy will effect others. But he's not fronting for anyone. The Kennedy's will be taken into account, but they won't call the shots. I'm convinced that if Teddy stands in for Johnson in the Massachusetts primary, McCarthy will oppose...