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...that day is past; the combines created in Rauschenberg's Manhattan loft bring from $400 to $7,500 apiece. Such public demand for such private images is one of the art boom's most fascinating phenomena. Does it reflect a starvation diet of subjective experience amongst the mass of rich Americans? Or do people buy Rauschenberg to share in his quiet protest against what they think cellophane-wrapped sort of world...
...first ballot last Monday, the Council has been deadlocked in choosing the man who will preside over it. Cambridge Civic Association Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 has gotten that delegation's four votes on each of the six ballots so far. The five independents, meanwhile, have split their vote amongst themselves in varying combinations, with no man ever getting more than three votes. There seem to be few indications that the situation will change at today's meeting...
Once President Eisenhower managed to eliminate the deadline from the Berlin ultimatum, the urge to discuss Germany had evaporated amongst everyone but the British. As French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville put the German problem bluntly last week: "The best thing for the West is to maintain the status quo. It is to Russia's interest that there be changes. We are not in a hurry to get to that point...
Enjoyed your comments on my old bridge-table antagonist [Oct. 19], Iain Macleod, Britain's new Colonial Secretary. For many years Mr. Macleod was a member of England's No. 1 bridge team, helping it garner worldwide prestige in international matches, and he still ranks amongst the world's top 20 or so bridge players. His always quiet, unassuming demeanor beclouds the brilliance of his intellect...
...Africa." cried the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, his mournful face almost aglow, "a number of nations have gained their freedom or are on the road to freedom, and this desire is also present amongst the Bantu people of the Union." He was speaking last week in behalf of a bill-"a God-given task"-that would ostensibly grant that freedom to the Bantus by setting up what will eventually become eight separate black states, which presumably would gradually become more and more nearly self-governing. The Prime Minister himself compared the arrangement to the British Commonwealth of independent...